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Denis Clark DS69 stops at the summit of the road from Crooked Creek into the North Fork of Cottonwood Creek, leading to Granite Meadow

Barcroft station, at 12,500 feet, part of the White Mountain Research Station. The person on station, Jerry, let us stay here overnight

The Tonto Trail stays on the Tonto Plateau, above the Inner Gorge, and in places opens up to surprisingly wide views, considering it is most of the way down into the Grand Canyon

Mike Huston DS68, Mike Quinn DS70, and Paul Patterson DS70 stop for rests at various points on the Tonto Trail

Mike Quinn DS70, Paul Patterson DS70, and Mike Hunston DS68 view the Inner Gorge. The Tonto Plateau runs just above the Inner Gorge, carved into old granite and metmorphic rocks.

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Hiking the inner canyon on the Tonto Trail means rounding many drainages and looking for water in each - springs were rare and, in this case, shared with the burros

Red Canyon is the route of the New Hance Trail from South Rim to river

Denis Clark DS69 descends into Granite Meadow on the hike to White Mountain Peak

Apparently a wheel line was left running as the temperature droppped