John Fowler
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I just got back from a few days along HITR. Mostly the purpose of the trip was just to get outside. I wanted to scope out the Forty Mile - Willow circuit for a later hike after the water gets warmer. My plan was to go down Sooner Wash as far as I could easily go to see what it would be like. At the fork before the dryfall I went to the right and after a little bit I could look back and see the dryfall in the canyon behind me. I followed some cairns until they led down a very steep slope into the gulch. At this point I turned around because I wasn't sure I could get down and back up in one piece. I read two reports here by Nick. In the first one he went left at the fork and then found a way down farther after passing the dryfall. On the second one he went right at the fork and descended where (I think) I turned around, calling it a class 4. Am I right about this? What's the best way for a senior-citizen hiker like me to do this?
On another note, if I went down willow to the confluence with 40-mile, which I have done before, how far back up 40-mile could I go before having to turn around?
On another note, if I went down willow to the confluence with 40-mile, which I have done before, how far back up 40-mile could I go before having to turn around?