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| Hiking | 9.53 Miles |
2,260 AEG |
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| partners | | cindyl picked this hike out for our weekend's main event; one that she had done in part before, with the added goal this time of scrambling up to FR345 and then heading for China Peak. We drove down and staked out a good campsite before heading out to the trailhead and got started about 9:45. We made decent time up the trail, and enjoyed the views all the way along the gulch untli we reached the lower Abril Mine site.
After a sit down break, we slowly made our way up the hill, trying our best not to slip and slide too much, and eventually we were on solid ground again. We paused to a peek at the adit along this road, which was blowing out cold air like an air conditioner, then road walked our way south, finding that in a couple shaded spots there was still a couple inches of snow across the road. When we reached the spot to leave the road and start towards China Peak, we decided to leave it for another day. We walked west up a short spur road and took a break there before heading back the way we came.
We took a different route down for the upper half of the scramble, staying further north and heading for the midway tailings pile and there traversing south to catch the route we had come up. There is another adit there as well; today it was several inches deep with water and also blowing out cold air. Hiking out, I noticed how much work had been put into building this long abandoned road, it must have been a good mine to cover that expense. With a short drive, we were back at camp to finish setting up, with dinner made before the sun set and a fire going shortly thereafter. |
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