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Brooklyn-Squaw Creek Ruins Loop, AZ
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| Hiking | 8.90 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 8.90 Miles | 7 Hrs 15 Mns | | 1.23 mph |
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| no partners | | I wanted to revisit these nice ruins/petroglyph sites, looking for rock art I missed the first time. I also thought it would make a nice loop by descending the creek and returning along the rim of Perry Mesa.
I parked at the Brooklyn ruins and walked up the small hill to the north to the rockpile at top. There were some petroglyphs there and on the boulders at the base. Then I headed south to the jeep road and into the sandy wash. About 1/4 mile down there was a cluster of boulders with faint petroglyphs, a circular arrangement of smaller rocks, and a worn "metate-type" feature. About 45 min later I left the wash to the right and found a larger habitation site (judging by the mainly overgrown extensive ruin walls). I saw a faint glyph and a few pot sherds here.
To this point the wash had been easy going but it started to get steeper with many small drops. They were mainly easy to descend or by-pass, though one caused me some trouble - I had to go quite high to the right and it was hard to get back. Several small pools/puddles were present along the way. The wash intersects N.Squaw Creek and eventually, after turning west far below the south tip of Perry Mesa, Squaw Creek itself. I went a few hundred yards up Squaw Creek to a substantial pool - to my surprise though there were no petroglyphs and little sign the mesa inhabitants spent much time there.
Then came the tough climb up to the mesa rim. Hard to believe this was (probably) the standard path to get a drink of water. I planned to hit a different part of the cliff band than I'd been to before, and thought I had, til I saw the famous Red Deer petroglyph. This oriented me so I went up to the rim, walked through the Squaw Creek Ruins and continued along to the cliff bands further east. There are just a huge number of petoglyphs in this whole area. I was running out of time and getting tired so I just skimmed the easy ones. In some places the hill was very steep (and so difficult to traverse), and the glyphs were high (and difficult to reach). I need to go back again.
From the Squaw Creek Ruins I walked near the mesa edge back to my starting point. Not wanting to trip on the basalt rocks hidden in the shadows in the grass I didn't see much of interest along the way, just one small circle of rocks with some sherds a few hundred yards south of the southernmost Brooklyn ruin.
Another fun day on Perry Mesa... |
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