Cuff Button Trail #276 Photoset • wallyfrack • 2019-10-26 • HikeArizona.COM

Cuff Button Trail #276, AZ

	2019-10-26
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Cuff Button Trail #276

Globe, AZ

Cuff Button Trail #276

Globe, AZ

Hiking	12.50 Miles	3,773 AEG

Hiking	12.50 Miles	7 Hrs 33 Mns	1.66 mph
	3,773 ft AEG

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Wildcat Canyon - Tonto NF

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Driving to the trailhead this morning two guys in a Forester pulled up next to me then back off and pulled up again. I knew it was trouble.

So I followed Bruce and Joe for a while and watched Bruce play bumper tag with a white pickup truck that came from Florence Junction. The entertainment started early but I pulled off at Pinto Valley mine and they continued on. The road down to Miles Ranch is a little rough but nothing you can't get by with high clearance. There were several pickups parked along the way which told me hunting season is on. I still didn't see another person out on the trails. I did see 1 white-tailed buck and 6 does along the way. Only one doe stopped for a photo. The trails are washed out, burnt, overgrown, rocky, down right ugly and I love it.

I took a few detours to revisit ruins which are easier to access and more visible since the burn but due to size or positioning still tough to get good photos of. I didn't have my track for Wildcat Canyon (it's on my other GPS) so I knew I might lose the trail. I hiked up a ridge and found where I should have turned but decide to continue around peak 4597. The miles were the same but that added another 500 AEG.

It was a nice day out but the off-trail and side trips on this one tired me out.

Flora

Flora [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Four O'Clock Indian Paintbrush Unidentified Flora

Culture

Culture [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Horseshoe

Named place

Named place [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Pinto Peak

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