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| Hiking | 5.23 Miles |
1,855 AEG |
| | Hiking | 5.23 Miles | 5 Hrs 52 Mns | | 1.89 mph |
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| no partners | | Hackberry Mountain is southeast of Camp Verde, Az and just west of FR708 (AKA Fossil Creek Rd).
My trailhead was about 8 miles down FR708 from Route 260 and across from a now defunct ranch.
I tried to do this hike 5 or 6 years ago. However, due to forest fires, and heavy rains washing out parts of FR708, the Forest Service closed the FR708 often, once for over a year.
There is a benchmark disk and two reference mark disks atop Hackberry Mtn, plus an azimuth disk further down and just to the side of FR708. After this hike I went looking for the Hackberry's azimuth mark.
The hike consisted of initially using a 'tired' ranch road, and then an off trail wander through a forest of trees, long grasses and then up Hackberry Mountain's bouldery mountainside.
The actual climb up this mountain, and maneuvering atop was a pleasant experience compared to my hike in the Palomas Mtns earlier this month.
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A couple interesting things about the Hackberry Mountain's benchmark placement.
When the surveyors got up there in 1946, they were surprised to find a loose, nameless and dateless benchmark disk on top of the largest boulder (and high point) of the mountain.
They decided to discard the nameless disk and start a new survey, placing the new benchmark disk on a boulder nearby, that was almost flush with the ground. Then they cemented their Hackberry Ref Mark #1 in that huge boulder that originally had the loose, no name BM disk.
The datasheet says surveyors wanted to "Place the BM disk in a more desirable location".
That's a new one for me.
Anyway, this entire hike was a pleasure, and was capped off with great views. |
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Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
J.R.R.TOLKIEN |
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