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| | Hiking | 9.00 Miles | 6 Hrs 30 Mns | | 1.38 mph |
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| no partners | | I prepared a bit for this hike - loaded both available GPS tracks. But apparently as I zeroed the distance display at the start, I deleted both tracks - not the first time - gotta quit doing that. Luckily I also had printed Joe's hike description and was carrying Carlson&Stewart's Hiker's Guide. Still route-finding was not so easy.
My route deviated a bit from Joe's recommended ascent but it wasn't a bad climb/bushwack. I thought I started where the hike description suggests but it seems I went one ridge further downstream (there were a couple cairns at the beginning). I mainly stayed on the minor ridges, occasionally diagonaling right to the next ridge. I hit the top of the broad plateau (2hrs from parking lot) coincident with the Ely-Anderson Trail as suddenly cairns appeared and the "low rock wall" was right there.
Very nice on the flat top...I played hide and seek with three fluffy-tailed deer and eventually wandered over to the top. Lots of nice chalceondy specimens up there. The summit register was hard to find, buried in the summit cairn, but it's noteworthy that the book lasted 10 years and only 20-30 names in the past year...many HAZ associates. Not many people come up here.
I didn't have Joe's map but I had Carlson's description of the "Southwest Route" so I bushwacked down the west side toward the Terrapin trail. I see now my path was different from the HAZ trace - and mine was pretty nasty. Lots of bushes and blood and it took about 90min to descend the mile to the Terrapin trail. If I had to do it again I think I'd go down the Ely-Anderson Trail. |
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