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Soap Creek Canyon Hike
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by
brandon
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AZ
·
May 9th, 2023
Hiking
Distance:
7.8 mi
Soap Creek is a fun non-technical route down sandy washes and rocky canyons that ends up at Soap Creek Rapids of the Colorado River. The route starts in a sandy wash with the Vermilion Cliffs in the background, and at 0.7 miles in, the route starts dropping dramatically into the canyon. This first…
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Distance
7.8 mi
Cumulative Elevation
1,337 ft
up
1,340 ft
down
Local Ecology
Here are common species of plants, animals, and fungi you might encounter here. Taking field notes when you’re on the route will help improve this list for others.
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Moss Campion
Silene acaulis (species),
“Cushion Pink”, “Moss Champion”
11
Observations
Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf
Thymophylla pentachaeta (species)
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
Fourwing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens (species)
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
Fallugia paradoxa
SPECIES ·
“Apache Plume”
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Pacific Gopher Snake
Pituophis catenifer (species),
“Henry Snake”, “Coast Gopher Snake”, “Bull Snake”, “Churchill's Bull Snake”, “Oregon Bull Snake”, “Pacific Pine Snake”, “Western Bull Snake”, “Western Gopher Snake”, “Sonoran Gopher Snake”, “Western Pine Snake”, “Blow Snake”, “Yellow Gopher Snake”, “Gophersnake”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Glossy Snake
Arizona elegans (species)
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Western Whiptail
Aspidoscelis tigris (species),
“Tiger Whiptail”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Plateau Striped Whiptail
Aspidoscelis velox (species)
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
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California Condor
Gymnogyps californianus (species)
1,866
Observations
JAN - DEC
Common Raven
Corvus corax (species),
“Raven”, “Northern Raven”
1,195
Observations
JAN - DEC
Rock Wren
Salpinctes obsoletus (species),
“Salpintes Obsoletus”
435
Observations
JAN - DEC
House Sparrow
Passer domesticus (species)
392
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Cacama valvata
SPECIES
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Heliopetes ericetorum
SPECIES ·
“Northern White-Skipper”
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Ellipsoptera rubicunda
SPECIES
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Chelinidea vittiger
SPECIES ·
“Cactus Coreid”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
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Soap Creek Canyon Hike
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