Comments on: Spring in Dominguez Canyon https://pmags.com/spring-in-dominguez-canyon Practical advice and musings on the outdoors, hiking, backpacking, ski touring, and camping. Sat, 25 Feb 2023 02:37:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Drew Smith https://pmags.com/spring-in-dominguez-canyon#comment-691616 Wed, 20 Nov 2019 20:36:37 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=14313#comment-691616 In reply to Paul Mags.

Yeah, I think it was the wet spring this year. The canyon walls and streambank were heavily gullied and eroded, and it looked pretty fresh.

]]> By: Paul Mags https://pmags.com/spring-in-dominguez-canyon#comment-691610 Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:49:31 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=14313#comment-691610 In reply to Drew Smith.

I truly don’t recall it being overgrown in 2014 (my first trip) or this 2017 trip. Maybe the wet winter of this area in the past year had an effect? I will say that I am looking at the date of the report; the short and terse trip report indicates the nadir of my burnt-out office worker phase. 🙂

]]> By: Drew Smith https://pmags.com/spring-in-dominguez-canyon#comment-691607 Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:52:39 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=14313#comment-691607 I did this loop the first week of Nov 2019. The upper portion of Little Dominguez Canyon. was a very tough bushwhack. It took me nearly two days to thrash through the length of the canyon. I suspect it has become considerably more overgrown since Paul posted this. It is a fine shoulder season loop, but be prepared to crawl through Gambel Oak thickets and scramble on steep canyon sidewalls. Trip report here https://drewsmithblog.com/2019/11/losing-the-highway-dominguez-canyon-loop/

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