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| Hiking | 7.70 Miles |
930 AEG |
| | Hiking | 7.70 Miles | 6 Hrs | | 1.86 mph |
| 930 ft AEG | 1 Hour 51 Mns Break | 20 LBS Pack | | |
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| partners | | Ginny and I took advantage of the great weather and headed to Redington Pass again to hike along another section of Tanque Verde Creek. This time we drove the jeep into our start point about 1 mile in from Redington Pass Road (fairly rough road and requires an empty bladder). The 1 mile section was even worse than the Redington Pass road but still didn't require 4WD, just high clearance and really slow going. Once at our start point we hiked down a dirt road to Italian Trap where we were last week. Fairly good road with a few rough spots but I still think it is easier to walk and usually a hike means walking not driving. Once at the old Cattle tank along Tanque Verde creek we just headed down the Creek. There was no water flowing in the creek with fairly easy walking along the creek either in the creek or on user trails along the creek (either human or cow trails). At about 4 miles in we came to a rocky section of the creek known as Tanque Verde Pools. The pools had quite a bit of water, too cold to go swimming and it didn't look real appetizing either. Followed along the pools in the creek but the lower two large pools required us to take a bypass route higher up along the side of the creek then drop back down into the creek and approach the pools from the other side.
Spent about an hour by the pools had lunch then headed back along the creek and then along a long dirt jeep trail. I really don't like walking along jeep trails, very tiring. We had the whole area to ourselves, didn't see a single person the whole hike. Would be nice to come up here when the creek is flowing and the water a bit warmer, of coarse that also attracts more people.
Saw a couple of javelina on our drive in, one deer in the distance and just about a tenth mile from my home a bobcat looking for one of ours neighbors pets. As I mentioned earlier there appeared to be no one around which I thought was really odd but on our drive out we saw at least 50 of those off road vehicles coming in along Redington Pass Road. They were in packs of 10 to 15 in a group and we saw at least 4 of those groups. Could tell they were coming by the large dust cloud in the distance. |
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