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Doing the Dirty Devil South loop from Steve Allen's book (just south of Robber's Roost area) in three weeks.
Route: Rock Canyon, over Red Benches, up Dirty Devil, up Happy Canyon, over the Big Ridge, across upper reaches of North and South Hatch, along The Block, back to Rock Canyon.
Anybody have knowledge of the water situation along this route?
I think I remember reading that Dave C. (or maybe someone else on here) has done this route before. You might try asking him.
I haven't done the whole thing, and it was a while ago. I went in March and found Allen's water beta to be accurate. Brendan S was in there within the last two years, he'd be a good resource.
The only place on that route I haven't seen water where Allen mentions were the first wall springs in lower Hatch a couple springs ago (though there was a good spring another mile or so up). The potholes on top of the Block had water last April and I'd wager they're fairly reliable this early in spring. French Spring fork is reliable for water and when we went through all of Happy a couple years ago there were a couple other springs (due north of the Pinnacle and at least one other place upcanyon from there).
Have fun; lots of good stuff on that route.
Thank you!
Another thing to note is that southern Utah just got drenched (along with N. AZ). So I would expect all possible water sources to be full to the brim right now.
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