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| Backpack | 23.00 Miles |
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| | Backpack | 23.00 Miles | 1 Day 2 Hrs | | |
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| no partners | | Decided to spend the weekend poking around the Mazatzals again, this time with my overnight gear. I thought I might shoot for Club Cabin. Didn't get started until ~10:30am, but figured I'd have plenty of time. The Barnhardt Superhighway was relatively quick and easy, and got to Chilson Camp in roughly 3 hours. That's where things start getting fun.
Davenport Trail was surprisingly easy to follow all the way to the crossing over of the ridge around which Davenport Trail contours. On the west side, route finding was a little more difficult due to the grass, but the route was well-cairned and overall not terribly hard to follow. I was expecting worse. South Fork of Deadman Creek looked very impressive, had good flow, and it was getting to be past 3pm when I got there, so it was awfully tempting to stop there should I find a usable campsite... And I did, just after crossing over to the west bank (there's only room for two tents, tops, here).
Spent the next hour and a half or so meandering down the creek in sandals, and where it turned around, it was looking almost as verdant as Fossil Creek. This is such a pretty canyon, and I definitely intend to come back and explore more of it, with a little more planning.
Had an uneventful but nice evening, a gusty night, and woke up feeling refreshed for the hike out, which I began around 6:30am. The trail was a little harder to follow in the uphill direction, but I got to Chilson by around 8am. Decided to take Brody Seep trail south to the divide, but after a mile or so the track disappeared into the brush and I didn't feel like dealing with that, so headed back to Chilson.
After that little misadventure we were making good time again, and got to the car by 12:30. Fun time out there, water is still easy to find right now. |
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