From: Joe Dorsey (jd713@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 17:27:36 CDT
There may be 54 stream crossings but with all the drought they might be
missing one stream that goes through all those crossings.
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Joe Dorsey
VC of Program
Bob White Lodge #87
----- Original Message -----
From: "David E. DeLano" <david.delano@cox.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list philmont" <philmont@troop47.com>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 5:54 PM
Subject: [Philmont]: Black Mountain Trail
> > How would you assess the route, having been
> > there very recently? Was the trail juncture from Shaffer's Pass up to
> > Black Mountain easy to find? Likewise for the trail down into Black
> > Mountain Camp?
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> Bill,
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> The route was as good a trail as any. We didn't have any trouble finding
it. You hang a right at Shaeffer's Pass and go a ways. After a while you
come to a barrel on the left of the trail (is this Shaeffer's Spring??) and
a trail branches off to the right again. After that you are pretty much
home free to the top of the mountain. We questioned out location a couple
of times, but checking the map put us right where we were supposed to be.
At the top of the mountain there is a fork. I don't recall where the other
trail goes, as this was the time the storm was moving in and I was anxious
to get the crew off the top of the mountain.
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> The way down is a good trail, though slippery when wet. I think the map
shows 7 switch back of about a kilometer each. There were more than 7,
though I don't recall how many (and I haven't downloaded my GPS data yet).
The switchbacks are relatively steep.
>
> The alternative to going over the mountain is to go around and up the
river. I think this has something like 54 stream crossings. Being from AZ,
we avoid such things when possible;-).
>
> David DeLano
> 627H2
> VC124, Phoenix, AZ
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