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| no partners | | Wanting solitude and having not visited the Santa Teresa’s before, we thought we would give this loop a try. Drove up FSR 941 to its junction with 941.6. Road was 6.2 miles and passable with high clearance. I put it in 4wd a couple miles in which helped.
Walked the old road to reef tank, where water was plentiful and started down holdout canyon. From here the tread is marginal and once in the burn it’s pretty much cross country even though the GPS said we were on trail more than 90% of the time  . The nasty catclaw, honey locust, whatever it was, took its pound of flesh.
Holdout creek was flowing nicely, even from the upper reaches.
The fire has taken a toll clearly; this area must have been something to behold before. Now it has a different more lifeless beauty.
About a mile short of the confluence with black rock canyon, we saw a great expanse of beachfront property along the creek and decided to call it home for the next 2 nights. Explored the area on Day 2 and enjoyed the running water in the many drainages in lower holdout. It was very quiet.
Except at camp. Starting around 3pm a coati clan apparently gathered in a hole in some large rocks across the river and chattered up a storm. They were still going when I went to bed at 9. What do they have to talk about for so long?
Day 3 had us needing to make up time and ground, so we bypassed the hold out - black rock confluence by taking cow trails cross country directly to black rock. Worked out well and conserved energy.
Black rock creek was flowing strong all the way up to and beyond the turn off to the hike back uphill and to the vehicle. As noted earlier, the burn damage is far less in this canyon and the last couple miles was unnoticeable. Quite lovely. The trail through the black rock canyon is navigable and while the trail map says it runs river right, the cow path is on the other side, river left. Hmmmm. Follow the cow path. |
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. The nasty catclaw, honey locust, whatever it was, took its pound of flesh. 
