Standup Creek, Navaho Pass — Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023

There is NO SITE to camp at where the Standup trail meets Bean creek trail. The Greentrails map we had said there was, but we (6ppl) looked thoroughly and didn’t find any site.

It was smoky, so it was only us and one other group staying overnight at the meadow below Navaho Pass on Saturday night. Top right and bottom left photos are from the meadow area. All was as expected with the trail, including two site options south of the Stafford/Standup junction. Lots of chipmunks and antlion traps.

On Sunday we made the quick trip up to Navaho Pass from the meadow, then got full packs on and headed along the Standup trail (steep, see middle photo). We were going to spend a second night out, at the standup/bean junction, but as previously mentioned, no site there, just steep hillside and rusty remains of some sort of stove thing. So we hiked out and spent the night at home, which was a really good thing considering air quality got into the “very unhealthy” range by the time we could check it. Ate some thimble berries on the way out, during the first/last mile where the trail is a bit overgrown and closer to the river.

The road to the standup trailhead was a bit much for our Prius, so that car was parked half a mile
to a mile from the trailhead before the big bumps, but the Subaru made it. (We did a car shuttle thing)