Family Jesuit Cave Hike

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Distance: 5.59 mi
Elevation gain: 574 ft
Technical difficulty: Moderate
Elevation loss: 574 ft
Max elevation: 6,913 ft
TrailRank: 39
Min elevation: 6,536 ft
Trail type: Loop

Moving time: 2 hours 13 minutes
Time: 4 hours 9 minutes
Coordinates: 1523
Uploaded: August 16, 2021
Recorded: August 2021

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near San Juan Juvenal, Guanajuato (Mexico)

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Family Jesuit Cave Hike: Oh man, this hike is about 1-2 miles too long for our gang. Everyone made it, but the last bit was brutal. We WILL do it again but either do a there-and-back to the cave, or seek a shorter return circuit route, or will go with adults. If you aren’t with kids (our group had kids aged 10, 11, 11, 11, 15) this hike is awesome. From the parking to the cave, it’s 2 miles across feels, descending to a lake and stream, crossing to the other side and continuing on. You’ll NEED to use your gps for this hike as there isn’t a clearly marked path and sometimes you’re just walking through fields!

There’s some scrambling and some climbing out of canyons! We had a picnic at the cave/pond area and then headed onward. But this is not the half way point for the hike, so the kids were disappointed when the rest of the walk was so long. We passed some more beautiful views and canyons and lakes/reservoirs.

If you’d like to take dogs, be aware that there may be horses, cows and other livestock along the route.

There is very little signal along the hike (ATT), but once in a while we’d get a bunch of dings and messages would come through.

We were fascinated by the bit of infrastructure in these remote areas (small bridges, dams, stone walls, ruins of buildings. I’ll be researching the history of how / why the Jesuits were in this area and will update here. But I understand that the ruins are from a Jesuit settlement from the era of the Cristo War.