New River Mesa Loop Photoset • Hansenaz • 2017-02-25 • HikeArizona.COM

New River Mesa Loop, AZ

	2017-02-25
	11 by Hansenaz

New River Mesa Loop, AZ

Hiking	10.98 Miles	2,362 AEG

Hiking	10.98 Miles	7 Hrs 43 Mns	1.48 mph
	2,362 ft AEG	17 Mns Break

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Seemed like a good day to go to New River Mesa. I've had good luck in the past just wandering the lower western slopes finding ancient ruins and the like. Today I thought I'd actually walk up to the mesa top and see what I could find.

The results were a little disappointing. On a nice flat bench below the mesa edge I did find a concentration of pottery pieces but that was really it for the day. I had preloaded one or two waypoints on the mesa top but somehow they didn't show up in my gps (I don't know why) so I just walked around. That's my preferred way of working anyway but this mesa is big! I just covered a small fraction and I didn't really see anything but rocks, grass and cacti.

Nevertheless it was a beautiful day to be out and get some exercise. The walking, while not great, could have been a lot worse-I was particularly glad that most of the bushes I bashed through were not sticky.

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