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| partners | | Seventeen gallons of gas to hike a total of 2 miles for the day and it was worth it! 
My sincere thanks to our Randal Schulhauser for joining me today and for doing all the research and previous scouting (April-June'07) to allow me to finally visit this ancient (~800 year old) and seldom visited Sierra Ancha Wilderness Salado Cliff Dwelling site. Hope you will consider reading my hike description and viewing my pic set with captions and posted GPS driving and hiking routes for further details on this most interesting site.
Our final five mile (+1670ft) drive-in on high clearance FR203A road is a real treat with scenic, short and long distance views in virtually all directions and just further justifies the driving time/distance to hike in this area.
Randal and I combined this short hike with his close-by HAZ "Coon Creek Ruins" hike to justify a full day out and we ended our day with good Mexican Food in Globe.
To justify the driving time/miles required to access this area from PHX, I do recommend a full day outing in this area to combine what we did above, or consider visiting this Nordhoff-Hope Cliff Dwelling along with a drive .8 miles further up FR203A to the "Bull Pass TH" with some exploring on one of two interesting hiking options going in from this TH:
Coon Spring TR#124.. http://hikearizona.com/decoder.php?ZTN=1028
Moody Point Ruins via Deer Creek TR#128.. http://hikearizona.com/decoder.php?ZTN=1901 |
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