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South Side Park Canyon - Sierra Ancha, AZ
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| Hiking | 3.23 Miles |
340 AEG |
| | Hiking | 3.23 Miles | 4 Hrs 31 Mns | | 0.90 mph |
| 340 ft AEG | 56 Mns Break | | | |
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| partners | | This was my third of five day hikes in this first time visit, remote area of the Salome Wilderness Boundary area (six full days available to off-trail hike/explore this interesting area with a total of eight days stay.. two of which were driving to/from and setup/take down/pack camp).
Two days prior on 10/13 Oregon_Hiker and I hike explored the rugged Upper Cliffs Rim West Side of "Park Canyon Creek" to locate the Main Falls viewpoint area and an additional Upper Falls area. We also hike/explored this West Side Cliffs Rim down canyon some before we turned around and headed back to our campsite.
This 10/15 hike was planned to explore this same Park Canyon Creek but do so from the rugged Upper Cliffs Rim South Side. This South Side was more difficult to route find with more vegetation to negotiate through, but this side of Park Canyon Creek with interesting views to the West Side Cliffs and sometime views down into the canyon drainage and distant views down canyon made for a better off-trail hike and pics experience than did exploring down the West Side, in my opinion.
We had high hopes of being able to follow this South Side Upper Cliffs Rim far enough down canyon to have views of the confluence of Park Canyon Creek with Salome Canyon Creek, but reality set in when we arrived at our necessary turn-around location [ photo ] at only 12:15pm 
Oh well, our turn-around time and location ended up being a smart decision as we knew that there was serious rain forecasted to enter this area later this afternoon. We needed our rain gear prior-to arriving back at Camp Grasshopper. With winds, it rained in sheets after dark this Saturday evening and continued most of the night into the early morning of Sunday-10/16. In my older Kelty 7x8 tent, I was up at 10:30pm and 12:30pm thinking I was going to float away  but fortunately, after checking my tent inside corners for any leakage, all was good and at morning light all that rain, maybe 1.5", mostly soaked into the rocky ground with no puddles under my tent floor. I was lucky!  |
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