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| Perry Mesa Southeast 3, AZ | |
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Perry Mesa Southeast 3, AZ
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| Hiking | 4.10 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 4.10 Miles | 3 Hrs 45 Mns | | 1.09 mph |
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| no partners | | I've been (sort of) systematically exploring the cliffband along the SE edge of Perry Mesa looking for petroglyphs and other Hohokam-era habitation signs. I counted up and this was my 6th trip there - just for some context I overlaid the various GPS tracks on a map (picture #1).
My wife came along and we did finish the edge between Brooklyn and Squaw Creek Ruins (~total is 3mi) and also a section west of Squaw. The petroglyphs in the new areas we looked at today we're less impressive than almost everywhere else along that edge, but still we found quite a few.
For me the highlights were a couple smaller ruins we stumbled upon - as usual low walls, lots of pottery pieces, and grinding slicks with a few bedrock metates.
Also just staying on top of the cliffband while passing by some of the previously logged areas we got nice views of some really good glyphs from a different angle.
Usually I see no one on Perry Mesa but today was a crowd: a few hunters in pick-ups and there was even a Jeep Cherokee all the way into Squaw Creek Ruin with 4 people....also a little garbage there. :-( |
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