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| Hiking | 9.23 Miles |
1,220 AEG |
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| no partners | | I'm not sure if I have become obsessed with this valley. Either that, or it's just a very attractive last-minute destination due to the short drive and chances I will see zero people while hiking.
Either way, here I was again. No clear destination in mind, so once in Pinto Valley, I explored a fresh set of interesting-looking outcrops. The idea worked out quite well, locating yet more petrified wood, prehistorically-inhabited cave, and a very cool boulder covered with petroglyphs just outside the cave. Plenty of signs of bighorns over here in the shade of the rock outcroppings, but I have yet to see a petroglyph of one in any of the panels I have come across in this valley. Much of what I have seen here seems less representational, at least in the literal zoomorph sense. The designs on today's rock seemed quite old, given the level of desert varnish re-development within the pecking.
This day, I saw a surprising 10 people overall. All in the 1-mi stretch between the road and Cottonwood Spring, though, so nothing to disturb my isolation in Pinto Valley itself, where I saw only my own footprints from previous days. |
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