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| no partners | | We went to Aravaipa Canyon for Valentine’s weekend. Permit process was incredibly easy. Started at the west trailhead. Mustang was fine for the road. Hit the trail. Hit the creek pretty much instantly. Of course it was beautiful. On the way in, met a guy who said that he saw a mountain lion from his campsite (at the entrance to Horse Camp Canyon). The whole way in was gorgeous. There was a great blue heron we were basically chasing down canyon. We pretty much sloshed up the creek most of the time. Hot and sunny. Fish in the creek. Several places before Horse Camp would’ve made incredible campsites. Pretty easy hiking once you commit to just slamming through the water. The more established-looking campsites begin just west of Horse Camp Canyon. One dude was camped at the first campsite, which was incredible (overlooking the creek). We went to the last (eastern-most) campsite, from which we had a view of Horse Camp Canyon. This was the campsite where the guy had seen the mountain lion. We were chilling at the campsite, and suddenly across the canyon this giant tail is sticking up over the grass, and I yelled to my wife, “Oh **** it’s the mountain lion!” And it kept getting closer, kept getting closer, and then disappeared up Horse Camp Canyon. And then behind it came another tail sticking up over the grass, and another one, and another one, etc. Anyway, turns out they were coatimundis. But the crazy thing is how many there were in this roving, single-file pack (thirty-forty). So that was crazy. We just watched them from across the river like: whoa.
Other than that: spent the entire next day kicking it on the beach in front of Horse Camp Canyon. Read The Invention of Morel by Bioy Casares (guy, fleeing the law, seeks refuge on this island that supposedly infects all inhabitants with deadly/skin-eating virus, guy survives alone on the island until one day the island is visited by a buttload of Europeans, one of whom is this beautiful woman, so the refugee/exile is like, sweet, I will now woo this woman, but then when he tries to talk to her she stares off into the distance without even registering his presence, then leaves, and then, slowly, the refugee/exile begins to realize something very strange about these European visitors…).
Spent two nights in Aravaipa. Amazing place. On the way out we found use trails that avoided much of the water, so that’s available too. |
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