This is a trail I'd hike again. Steve from the club led this hike. The eight club members were Steve,Paul, Susan, Steve, Rob and Casi, Hanna and I. We met on post and carpooled to the trailhead 30 miles away in the western Huachucas. By 8:45am we were on the trail and hiked the gentle ascent for nearly four miles.
The trail paralled an intermittent creek up the canyon, allowing the dogs fresh water. We hiked under giant alligator junipers, pines, and the proverbial cottonwoods and sycamores. And this time we had a special treat: the caw of the reclusive Elegant trogon, a subtropical bird that makes the Huachucas its home. Hanna, one of the hikers, could recognize the call.
I heard so many unique bird calls today and I couldn't identify one. One lone hummingbird came down to greet us as we reached an old ranch/pond that was our lunchbreak before we went back down the trail.
The trail paralled an intermittent creek up the canyon, allowing the dogs fresh water. We hiked under giant alligator junipers, pines, and the proverbial cottonwoods and sycamores. And this time we had a special treat: the caw of the reclusive Elegant trogon, a subtropical bird that makes the Huachucas its home. Hanna, one of the hikers, could recognize the call.
I heard so many unique bird calls today and I couldn't identify one. One lone hummingbird came down to greet us as we reached an old ranch/pond that was our lunchbreak before we went back down the trail.
We sat under some shady cottonwoods near the pond. I could smell wild onion (or was it the noxious onion weed the FDA is trying to eradicate from Arizona?) nearby. The lush green stalks of former flowering plants lined the pond with their fading blooms. Ducks, fish and toads swam in the pond.
The Forest Service is draining the pond. We don't know why for sure, but the pond is currently home to several ducks, toads and fish. We saw new pipes along a disturbed area...
It was a lovely day for a hike. Temps are back in the low 80s and skies were blue. The eight-mile hike took us five hours with several pleasant rest stops along the way.
We didn't see any other people on this hike and immigrant trash was at a minimal. Perhaps if we had hiked further on the Scotia Canyon trail to the Crest trail, we would have seen more...
The dogs did well, too. They started off leash going to the pond but after chasing deer and turkeys they were on leashes going back to the van. They were too tired to care by then.
The Forest Service is draining the pond. We don't know why for sure, but the pond is currently home to several ducks, toads and fish. We saw new pipes along a disturbed area...
It was a lovely day for a hike. Temps are back in the low 80s and skies were blue. The eight-mile hike took us five hours with several pleasant rest stops along the way.
We didn't see any other people on this hike and immigrant trash was at a minimal. Perhaps if we had hiked further on the Scotia Canyon trail to the Crest trail, we would have seen more...
The dogs did well, too. They started off leash going to the pond but after chasing deer and turkeys they were on leashes going back to the van. They were too tired to care by then.
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