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truck, we climbed about 150 feet, then dropped down to an abandoned SP&S
Rwy track, & walked north on the roadbed through a 1200 yard tunnel
to come out near the foot of Devil's Canyon. |
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©2008 Mike Huntington |
The first wildflower we've seen this year. |
©2008 Mike Huntington |
This freshly bloomed balsam-root was about 50 ft. above the RR roadbed. |
©2008 Mike Huntington |
Looking across Devil's Canyon from the hill we just walked through. The RR roadbed is on the left. |
©2008 Mike Huntington |
Farther up the hill, some new bunch grass is off to a promising start. |
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Here's our route scrawled on a terraserver
image. The black lines are my sidekick's route. Dotted line is the 1200 yard tunnel. We parked at elev. 670 & we got up to about 940 & down to 600 ft. |
©2008 Mike Huntington |
We had some daylight left, so after leaving Devil's Canyon, we went north and checked out parts of Staircase Rapids, which we'll hike through later this summer. |
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