The Hike -- Segment 3 -- Wood Spring to McFarland Gully-NW (0.8 miles)

From Wood Spring (Table 1, Wpt. 10), the trail descends along the steep gully, passing several short, rocky switchbacks, then traverses the hillside to the left onto a bit of a ridgeline (Wpt. 09) behind rocky-spire limestone outcrops. The trail bends east behind the rocky knobs to switchback steeply down the slope into the canyon below.

Before long, in deep woods near the bottom of the canyon, the trail contours gently (a little up and down) into the Great Northwest Gully (Wpt. 08) that cuts the northwest face of McFarland Peak.

The trail crosses the wash at a point where, relatively speaking, the woods feel deep and dark with large ponderosa pine, white fir, bristlecone pine, and a few juniper shrubs (common juniper).

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