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waning moon Posts: 34
1/31/2014
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Daren, our paths may have crossed, I was up at the spring, a favorite place although a bit crowed now. I planned this for some time, quite apprehensive, my first real hike (I put on a day pack), to any of you this is a casual stroll, to me it took 3 hours. Packed up enough water and E supplies for 2 days in case I went down, There was a black Toyota? maybe Nissan at the old tank what you call the parking area, I never went up that far after seeing it, chose to go over the east ridge and go up wash, I was spent by the time I got to the bottom of the saddle. Plants/friends on the way
Lavender
Holly
Aster
Bladder pod
Encelia
Was not prepared for this, water tanks? tired and somewhat dissorientated, never this this before
gurgler? water trough, in dissrepair needed serious work though both alive and dead bees clogging it, loved it, I could not clean it out, running on empty
Interesting catch basin above, not well designed and silted over, but tanks were full. again if I had a shovel and any energy left I would have dug it out
tanks from above, whale in background
old catch basin I remember
Seep/spring now dry
On way down climbed only soft ground knoll with grass, sleeping circle still there bu rocks pushed around. Rested quite awhile here, number one it overlooks wash from Hapaha to Harper, great game trail and I had severe angina, got into my nitrostat.
chip still there. hunting camp, game headed for water
sleeping circle at bottom of saddle
Top of saddle, road in to spring, wash I came up to the East, went down this way, I could not worry about running into the black truck occupants who I thought were camping in the tank. Got down to bottom, truck still there but no one around, but I picked up the same size 12 new tread hiking boot track that I saw going over to Harper in the wash.
I remember first going up to spring when I was very young, I followed the pipe, could run on boulder tops then, what I called dancing, now I go a bit slower
edited by waning moon on 1/31/2014
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