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Hardscrabble Mesa Loop, AZ
mini location map2017-05-06
15 by photographer avatarHansenaz
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Hardscrabble Mesa Loop, AZ 
Hardscrabble Mesa Loop, AZ
 
Hiking8.81 Miles 1,575 AEG
Hiking8.81 Miles   6 Hrs   9 Mns   1.46 mph
1,575 ft AEG      8 Mns Break
 
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75deg forecast in Payson so another trip to Hardscrabble Mesa. I planned to walk new ground but pass by one interesting area I'd been to before.

A little ways above the "interesting area" I came across a bunch of bedrock metates. Below were a couple small pools in the satellite pictures but only one had water today. That pool had a couple faint petroglyphs.

I spent a little more time going down the drainage but didn't find anything else. Looped back dodging junipers on the ridge and passed by a few more faint glyphs and a couple concentrations of pottery pieces and flaked rock but no clear habitation sites.

Windy day! Blew my hat off a few times.
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