Pigeon Springs Loop Photoset • joebartels • 2022-01-08 • HikeArizona.COM

Pigeon Springs Loop, AZ

	2022-01-08
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Pigeon Springs Loop

Phoenix, AZ

Pigeon Springs Loop

Phoenix, AZ

Hiking	6.98 Miles	1,746 AEG

Hiking	6.98 Miles	4 Hrs 11 Mns	2.02 mph
	1,746 ft AEG	44 Mns Break

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Pigeon Trail #134

Four Peaks Trail #130

Partners

partners

	adilling	DarthStiller
	wallyfrack

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El Oso - FR143
If you did not like the drive previously, you're going to hate it now. Any sedan that miraculously conquers 15-ish miles will unlikely negotiate one washed-out ravine filled with rocks no smaller in diameter than one foot on average.

Pigeon Trail #134 is well defined. Areas of green and a few trees escaped the beautiful mosaic burn. Mild brush, shorts-friendly for all but power whiners. Several ravines had a light flow from rain/snow a week ago. Occasional patchy 1-2 inch packed snow covered the trail.

We intended to hike Four Peaks Trail #130 out-n-back to Black Bear Saddle in hopes of witnessing a sleuth of bears. The northern slopes of the ravines were getting too dicey. Everyone mutually agreed to skip the final two miles to the famed sloth-ridden saddle.

On break early for lunch, I randomly suggested a ruin over on a knoll for Wally to check out as a joke. Naturally, he found a lost city or such. Lunch was history by 10:30 and the sun busted out! It wasn't really cold but it sure was nice to shake that dirty feeling of winter gloom.

Synopsis
The curiosity of the Bush Fire aftermath brought us in and the dead of winter turned us around. I was excited to visit Pigeon #134 since it'd been ten years. These trails will be yawners to sportos, deweebs, etc but even with the burn I still like 'em. This was the shortest group hike I recall but my prior 24-mile minimum was falling on deaf ears...lol Great to finally meet Andy too!

Flora

Flora [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Sugar Sumac

Named place

Named place [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Lone Pine Saddle

Meteorology

Meteorology [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Sunrise

	Shake Spring	Gallon + per minute	Gallon + per minute
	The elusive spring is unknown but the creek is flowing well

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- joe

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