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| Lime Creek Cabin and beyond, AZ | |
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Lime Creek Cabin and beyond, AZ
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| Hiking | 16.70 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 16.70 Miles | 11 Hrs 45 Mns | | 1.42 mph |
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| no partners | | A couple weeks Bruce and the boys posted pictures of some very impressive petroglyphs near Lime Creek cabin. He also told me he heard second hand there were some ruins nearby. I've been interested in knowing more about habitation sites between Perry Mesa and the Verde River and so this caught my attention.
Then just by coincidence I noticed (on a satellite picture) a hilltop ruin not too far from LCC. This was getting interesting. But it would be a long day for me.
I got an early start and enjoyed the long downhill walk to Lime Creek. The trail gets a little messy in the bottom but I was soon at the cabin. I found the petroglyphs and it really is the largest collection I've seen in one spot. Too bad there is some deterioration and 100+ years of grafitti. There must have been plenty of people living around here ca. 800yrs ago.
From there I followed my nose and ran across a lookout and a small habitation site nearby.
Next I set my sights on getting to that hilltop. From a distance it's an impressive looking place: a high flat butte that sits by itself. It's surprising to me that people would want to hang around that far above the water.
I went up a ridge that turned into a nice flat field. It was littered with pottery and quartz and I noticed a couple small ruins. There was another step up before the top, but there were a lot of boulders there and I didn't notice habitation signs. Finally on top: a pretty special place because of it's 360° views. The top was full of pottery pieces and quartz but the ruins were less impressive than I'd hoped. A cliff band showed some faint petroglyhs but I didn't explore it carefully.
Now to make it home. I came down a parallel ridge - didn't see any more interesting Indian stuff but I did encounter a gila monster. Made it back to the cabin a little ahead of schedule before the long trudge out...needed a flashlight for the last 10 min.
Missed Happy Hour  ...won't be doing any more long trips for a while. |
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