Hiking in Northern Arizona - 2015/2016

Download or read book Hiking in Northern Arizona - 2015/2016 written by Ellis Price and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-16 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes 2015 and 2016 hiking and camping activities in Northern Arizona and Southern Utah. The hiking season started on 3 October 2015 with a hike from Long Canyon Road up Dry Creek and on into HS Canyon; it ended on 28 May with a combined hike to the Lookout on Apache Maid Mountain and then to the nearby site of the old T-Bar Ranch. Other hikes included were sections of General Crook Trail at Thirteen-Mile Rock Butte and to Kehl Spring along the Mogollon Rim, several hikes in the southern Black Hills Mountains, a trip to Geronimo's Spring and Cabin by way of a little-known trail from the top of Mingus Mountain, an exploration of the horse trails between Lower Red Rock Loop Road and Gooseneck Bend, a hike to Kendrick Peak by way of the Firewatcher Shortcut and a number other hikes in the Verde Valley Area.Near the end of the season, we camped out at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah and hiked Cockscomb Ridge to view the gorgeous, multicolored upended hills and rocks exposed by erosion in the uplift area of the East Kaibab Monocline. We then visited the site of the lost town of Pahreah on the bank of the Paria River, hiked down Wire Pass Gulch to Buckskin Gulch and visited the California Condor Viewing Area