Top of the trail before starting down into the drainage
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The view ahead from the top of the trail
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What a good thunderstorm can do. All of this was washed down
by the approximately 2ft wide creek underneath. As you can see it
wasn't 2ft wide during the storm runoff.
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The 2022 monsoon season left a whole lot of growth/grasses in its wake.
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From the bottom of the drainage & creek, the trail goes up a short ways to an excellent camping spot.
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The lens on my camera can never pass up an interesting or pretty geologic feature.
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This little creek always has at least some trickle at this
point, but this year, due to the previously mentioned monsoon, the
water was exceptionally strong.
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The view from the trail/drainage.
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Maxie considers it his obligation to taste-sample every section of the creek.
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A miner's cabin from the gold rush days. If you could see the
inside of this structure, you could see what my ever-so-eco-conscious
trail warriors do to a structure like this. My brother is a ...
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 As the trail begins its climb out of the drainage.
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A last look at the creek.
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The somewhat long slog up to the top of the trail.
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