Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Slavin Gulch

Today we hiked the Slavin Gulch Trail in the Dragoon Mountains, just east of Tombstone. 7.3 miles and almost 2,000 feet of elevation gain. Beautiful 70 degrees and little wind. The literal highpoint of our hike: a 400-foot scramble up an old zinc mine's rock detritus beside the rotting boards of the once-robust gravel shoot, and then a perilous traversing of an equally dubious timber to then a slide down the talus slope to the bottom. Exhilarating.  The Dragoons never fail to amaze with their surreal rock formations.
My friend Ira and I climbing the steep remains of an ore shoot.
A rock sentry, no doubt placed there by the very hand of God when the earth was created 6,000 years ago.




 



View looking back from the top of the mine.

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