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| | Hiking | 4.34 Miles | 1 Hour 53 Mns | | 2.68 mph |
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| partners | | Stop number eleventeen on our weeklong utadventureh was a really pleasant and enjoyable walk along lower Hackberry Canyon. The light flow of water here really added to the experience. We chatted with a couple of Hayduke thru-hikers and managed to find a couple extra beers in the cooler to donate to them along with a gallon of clean drinking water. (We topped off our supply at the 24hr spigot at the Paria contact station later in the day).
I'm not sure I could drive past here again without stopping. It's that nice. At our turnaround point we could smell the very strong scent of rotting flesh. Hiker reports online indicated there were a couple dead cows in the canyon and while we didn't find one we were obviously not too far away.
Back at the trailhead we had a really interesting and educational discussion with a guy on horseback who we learned was the rancher with the grazing lease in the area. His family has been ranching here for generations. This winter presented conditions he said they had never experienced before. They lost three cows to quicksand in Lower Hackberry, an unprecedented occurrence in that drainage.
He also informed of us some dinosaur prints that we had missed along our route (another good reason to check it out again). More interestingly, he was completely befuddled at why we would be out there hiking just for the experience and enjoyment of it all. "Why would somebody from Phoenix come all the way to Hackberry just to walk through it!?"  |
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