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| Lee Canyon Wash widened by Floods |
Sue and I parked at the Cattle Grate Trailhead on Lee Canyon Road on a cool morning and dipped into the wash behind the parking turnout. It was immediately clear that the wash had been flooded in Hilary's deluge and probably in a couple of rainstorms after that. In fact, just two days previous, there had been another rain storm and there were still mud puddles all up and down the now wide wash. Multiple trees have fallen since we were last here. Many of them had fallen from the side of the wash where the water had undercut the embankment. Therefore, there are many signs that warn you of that danger. Someone has been in the wash to saw off all the limbs from the fallen trees so that hiking up and down the wash was not encumbered by the mess. It was all actually very magical as we passed two grazing wild horses and continued to watch for other falling trees! We hiked all the way up to the traffic circle on Lee Canyon Road, took a break, then started back down. We had used the wash for our trip up but used the old road, when we could, between the wash and the mountains to get back. On the way back, we took a side trip up to Galium Spring across Lee Canyon Road near the Chain-Up Area. The spring appeared as it always does; a mushy hillside spring that the wild horses visit.
Stats: 4.5 miles, 650' gain; 2.5 hours
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