{"id":10191,"date":"2011-11-11T13:49:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T13:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/11\/first-water-to-canyon-lake\/"},"modified":"2011-11-11T13:49:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T13:49:34","slug":"first-water-to-canyon-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/11\/first-water-to-canyon-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"First Water to Canyon Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Here are some shots from last Sunday&#39;s Superstition Wilderness 7.6 mile point-to-point hike from First Water trailhead to Canyon Lake trailhead.&#0160; A delightful hike that starts out easy as one meanders out on the soft and flat Second Water trail though Garden Valley.&#0160; But then it gets rocky.&#0160; By the time you come to the junction&#0160; with the Boulder Canyon trail, you&#39;re in deep with plenty of ankle-busting rocks and lung-taxing upgrades.&#0160; This hike has a lot to offer: easy walking, challenging climbing, solitude, history (one passes right by the Indian Paint mine,) great views of Battleship Mountain and Weaver&#39;s Needle, and even a couple riparian areas.&#0160; The two young whippersnappers depicted, Larry and James,&#0160; acquitted themselves creditably.&#0160; I made &#39;em work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c015392fb1bb6970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0851\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c015392fb1bb6970b image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c015392fb1bb6970b-800wi\" title=\"IMG_0851\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0162fc505fb6970d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0852\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0162fc505fb6970d image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0162fc505fb6970d-800wi\" title=\"IMG_0852\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c015392fb1f9c970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0853\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c015392fb1f9c970b image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c015392fb1f9c970b-800wi\" title=\"IMG_0853\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0162fc50623c970d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0854\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0162fc50623c970d image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0162fc50623c970d-800wi\" title=\"IMG_0854\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c015436cea85b970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0855\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c015436cea85b970c image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c015436cea85b970c-800wi\" title=\"IMG_0855\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0162fc506fc0970d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0856\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0162fc506fc0970d image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0162fc506fc0970d-800wi\" title=\"IMG_0856\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some shots from last Sunday&#39;s Superstition Wilderness 7.6 mile point-to-point hike from First Water trailhead to Canyon Lake trailhead.&#0160; A delightful hike that starts out easy as one meanders out on the soft and flat Second Water trail though Garden Valley.&#0160; But then it gets rocky.&#0160; By the time you come to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/11\/first-water-to-canyon-lake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Water to Canyon Lake&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,132,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-hiking-and-backpacking","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}