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It was still quite cool when morning arrived. I actually wished that I had had a pair of gloves with me while I was running around trying to break camp. We also discovered that we were not alone in deciding that this would be a good place to camp. There was another couple camped over a low ridge that sat between us and the trail. We ate breakfast and headed out. I knew that this would be a fairly easy day. I had hiked out to this point about a year and a half ago as a day hike and I knew that most of the trek along the remainder of the Boucher Trail would be flat with some little ups and downs.
It took about 2 hours to get to the Dripping Springs Trail junction and about another hour to get from there to the junction with the Hermit Trail. The views along these sections of the Boucher and Dripping Springs trails are unimaginable, you just have to see them. Both sections of trail run right along the top of the Redwall and it is a sheer drop from the edge down into the Hermit Creek drainage. I decided that at some point I would like to go down to Hermit Creek and try heading up stream into the drainage just to see how far I could get.
Another hour and a half or so and we were back at the Hermit trailhead, the end of the trail. It was a very enjoyable trip in spite of the helicopters and even though we never made it to Crystal Rapids. That would just have to wait for another time.
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Sunrise from camp just below Yuma Point
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Potholes full of rain water
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Camp Sweet Camp below Yuma Point, Boucher Trail
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Heading back into Hermit Basin, Boucher Trail
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Rabbit near the trailhead, Boucher Trail
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Hermit Canyon, Whites Butte, Colorado River from Pima Point overlook
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