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| SE Perry Mesa Drop Loop, AZ | |
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SE Perry Mesa Drop Loop, AZ
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| Hiking | 5.03 Miles |
1,478 AEG |
| | Hiking | 5.03 Miles | 5 Hrs 15 Mns | | 1.28 mph |
| 1,478 ft AEG | 1 Hour 20 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | Southeast Perry Mesa is one of my favorite places and I've looked around there several times - still I could think of some new ground I wanted to cover.
The road in was in worse shape than usual with plenty of muddy puddles, but I made it to within a few hundred feet of my usual "light SUV" (big rocks) stopping point.
I passed some small ruins (with a few glyphs and metates) that I'd been to before and also went by one or two new ones. My first goal was to explore a shelf a few hundred feet below the south mesa edge...I thought it might have been a useful spot for the Perry Mesans and I doubted it got many modern visitors. Turns out it's a pretty cool place with plenty of mesquite (not common on the mesa itself) and flat, even bowl shaped (moist) ground. But I only found one glyph, a few faint grinding slicks, and a single pottery piece.
I continued down to Squaw Creek. I was hoping I might see signs of the ancient path (pottery or glyphs or something) to the creek, but nope. I was happy to spot a nice decorated boulder at the bottom that I hadn't seen before, and I had a stop at the great petroglyph site at the bottom I had been to before.
I had planned to do a little more looking around at the bottom but I was feeling a little worn down and beat up (rough country), so I just headed back, up another shallow ridge. I was still hoping to find some sign of travel between the mesa edge ruin and the creek bottom glyph site (and pool) but again nothing til I got near the top and ran into the familiar copious pottery pieces and the cliff band glyphs.
So another few "possibles" crossed off the list and a few new things found. |
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