March 21-23, 2014, with Richard (day-hiking and car camping.)
We planned this as a day-hiking and car camping trip. On the first day, we had driven to the Tiger Mine Trailhead, where the passage begins, and left my car there. We then parked Richard's car at the Camp Grant Wash intersection with the trail, to be picked up the evening of the next day, and hiked south. Interestingly, this is one of the more remote long stretches of the trail, with no paved road crossings until Kelvin, almost 50 miles away (Freeman Road is dirt at the midpoint).
The route was dry, though there were a couple of tanks. We saw one through-hiker, and one bicyclist that day (another bicyclist the next day). Antelope mountain is the picture above; to the side is a point near the Tiger Mine Trailhead.
We ate at a pizza place in San Manuel, then camped out at the Freeman Road trail access (about 300 yards off the road itself. We were disturbed all night with people target shooting about a mile away, with automatic weapons. Just before we were about to break camp, they stopped, at full dark.
The next day, we hiked to Richard's car in Camp Grant Wash. It was a beautiful day, though also hot, with few water spots. We felt lucky to have dayhiked these areas with plenty of water.
It turns out that I had driven into Camp Grant Wash with Chris, in the red truck, with my bike in the back, to ride the trail. I don't think I did, however. But the photographic evidence is clear--Richard and Sarah drove their car as well (see below left--that's Richard, and my truck with the bike).
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