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| Hiking | 7.20 Miles |
1,246 AEG |
| | Hiking | 7.20 Miles | 4 Hrs 45 Mns | | 1.71 mph |
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| no partners | | A section of Rarick Canyon is well known for it's nice red rock petroglyphs...but it's mainly treated as a drive-in treasure hunt. Given the many ancient archaeological sites in the area (e.g. V-Bar-V, Montezuma Castle, Sacred Mountain) I thought it'd be worth walking around a bit.
I started by heading up a bump (close to I-17) and there were several rooms on top but just a single pottery sherd - probably a fort/lookout. I headed east to Rarick Canyon hitting it about 2mi below the petroglyph area. There's a lot of nice red rock but it's pretty overgrown and I didn't see any glyphs along the way. In some places the rock hopping (and water avoidance) was fun, in others it was choked and slow.
I was lucky that there were no other visitors at the glyph area and that I walked right to the nice panel I had missed on my previous visit. As mentioned in some of the other logs it's unusual in that the rock is collapsing (one big rock could go any day) and there are glyphs on some of the fallen rocks.
I did a little scouting further up the canyon (with no useful result) and stopped at the impressive bear/cat glyph (you decide) on the way back.
Thunder sleet soaked me and got my boots muddy but it felt good with summer coming. |
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