21 miles, 9 hours

We began on dirt roads today and following Ryan Choi’s suggestion stayed on the road a wee bit longer before heading over the small divide to drop into Bullrush Hollow. It probably save a bit of elevation gain and loss as well as a bit of sandy slogging.

Bullrush Hollow was dry and sandy but the canyon soon narrowed with oak, pinyon, juniper and ponderosa all clinging to precarious holds in the sandstone walls. We found water where it was noted in the book, then we continued on down to Park Wash, which was very sandy.

Once again the wind was picking up and had started gusting pretty hard. Soon we had to wear bandannas over our faces because of the blowing sand. It’s hard to appreciate the scenery with blowing sand.

TRAIL NOTES:
As Ryan Choi noted you can continue SE on the road at mile 23.4 instead of turning, then take a left at the fork in one mile. We found a stock tank full of good water on top of this divide. We found good water at 27.9 where Bullrush Gorge turns to Bullrush Hollow. At 32.8 follow the two-track instead of the wash bottom, then at about 33.5 you’ll find a cabin on the right side of the road at the base of the white cliffs at Calf Pasture Point, it had a full stock tank and flowing pipe. At around 43.5 turn left at a corral to go up a steep road to an unnamed spring at the end of the road, about a quarter mile. This is north of Kitchen Corral Spring on the topo