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Tag: Soap Creek

Hiking Soap Creek

Posted on January 10, 2022February 27, 2022 by rondungan

Decades ago, I backpacked into a place Soap Creek, tributary of the Colorado River in northern Arizona. It’s possible that just about everything about our trip was illegal – our dogs, our campfire on the beach, our feasting like Viking lords on a fat rainbow trout, howling at the moon. We did not have a…

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