Sagebrush personal hiking blog
HDT 2022 Day 19, April 19, Tuesday Start entrance to Navajo Canyon S7 mile 22.7 End along Last Chance Creek S7 mile 44.4 Miles walked: 21.7
Navajo Canyon tended to have steep earthen walls with purplish hues, and a flat walkable drainage of crusted sand.
Up close, the dirt seemed to include a mixture of fine small pieces of slate, stuck together like dried mud. This is beyond my ken. What is rock, what is soil, what is in-between?
HDT 2022 Day 18, April 18, Monday
Start top of Fifty Mile Bench S7 mile 6.9
End start of Navajo Canyon S7 mile 22.7
Miles walked: 15.8
With Fifty Mile Bench we leave the brilliant red rocks of yesterday, and move to more muted colors, tans and grays, like my own state. Continuing to follow the pack trail, we get to Mudhole Springs, a line shack with fenced off springs, and the next sure cattle-free water is many miles away, so it is time to fill all water containers and drink as much as possible, as hikers would say,¨camel up¨.
HDT 2022 Day 17, April 17, Sunday
Start Coyote Gulch S6 mile 62.0
End top of Fifty Mile Bench S7 mile 6.9
Miles walked:17.4
Coyote Gulch widens at times into a lovely riparian area, with cottonwoods and oak.
We get to walk through Coyote Natural Bridge.
