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The fourmile climb up the 2,000 foot eastern Superstition Wilderness bajada and escarpment consumed the morning and much of the afternoon. It was the 80 pound backpack that did it. Ten days of supplies, tent, equipment and 3.5 gallons (28 pounds) of water; enough food for a trek across the Superstition Wilderness, water enough for two days. One day in, one day out if thewater could not be replenished. Mine was a water commitment, enough water storage to allow two days to trekking to another source.

Here the canyon rim view from atop the escarpment…..