{"id":2085,"date":"2022-04-23T14:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T14:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/23\/superstition-wilderness-garden-valley-loop-out-of-first-water-trailhead\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T14:37:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T14:37:52","slug":"superstition-wilderness-garden-valley-loop-out-of-first-water-trailhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/23\/superstition-wilderness-garden-valley-loop-out-of-first-water-trailhead\/","title":{"rendered":"Superstition Wilderness: Garden Valley Loop out of First Water Trailhead"},"content":{"rendered":"

The boys were a little anxious but acquitted themselves well on this five and a half mile loop through characteristically rugged Superstition terrain except for the easy walk through Garden Valley itself. The guide books say it takes four and a half hours. It took the old men a bit longer. We left at 6:36 and were back at the Jeep at 11:22 ante meridian<\/em>. We made the full trip to Hackberry Spring which involves an arduous return via some scrambling  and a lot of streambed rock hopping.<\/span><\/p>\n

In these times that try men's souls it is excellent therapy to be on trails that try men's soles.  Isn't that cute?<\/span><\/p>\n

Dennis proudly standing and your humble correspondent sitting near Hackberry Spring. Photo credit: Jeff K. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"Bill<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Dale Tuggy has a good eye. Here is a shot from our Good Friday hike, 3 April, 2015.  We are headed back to the trailhead from Hackberry Spring  via the First Water Creek bed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"BV<\/a>
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And here is the man himself in the vicinity of Hackberry Spring:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The boys were a little anxious but acquitted themselves well on this five and a half mile loop through characteristically rugged Superstition terrain except for the easy walk through Garden Valley itself. The guide books say it takes four and a half hours. It took the old men a bit longer. We left at 6:36 … Continue reading “Superstition Wilderness: Garden Valley Loop out of First Water Trailhead”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,132,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2085","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\/2085","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=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}