Sagebrush personal hiking blog
MRT/GET 2021 Day 31, May 5, Wednesday
• Start 28050 on Shipman Trail
• End 28280 Red Canyon, beyond Apache Kid Wilderness
• Miles walked: 18.3
Shipman Trail continues to climb, past Myers Spring, crossing talus, past the ridge and the Myers cabin ruin as the trail enters a mild burn area, and down to Nave Spring. All the time I am taking notes for a future trail project, noting a possible group campsite, counting blowdowns (80), and so forth.
MRT/GET 2021 Day 30, May 4, Tuesday
• Start “seg27 detour water’, new bypass for Monticello Box
• End 28050 on Shipman Trail
• Miles walked: 23.8
What happens when you want to travel east, but all the ridges, canyons, and roads are oriented north-south? When you on the GET, you do a lot of cross-country (XC) navigating, going straight up one ridge and down into the drainage, several times in one day.
Starting out, my route does some road walk and then XC to rejoin the main GET route.
MRT/GET 2021 Day 29, May 3, Monday
• Start 26050 on ridge
• End “seg27 detour water’, new bypass for Monticello Box
• Miles walked: 25.9
Continuing with the CDT heading north along a fence line on a sort of ridge on trail or two-track, through mixed conifer and bunch grass, one can see low grassland to east and west, like our section of forest a few miles wide was running out.
By late morning the CDT departs north, and several miles will turn westward to join with the Gila Alternate south of Pie Town. The GET goes east along a fence line steeply downhill on Duck Canyon Trail, to a very different ecozone, departing the Gila National Forest.
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