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| no partners | | I got back to my roots a little in the eastern Supes today. Some recent triplogs in the eastern Supes that piqued my interest recently and then while snooping around I spotted what looked like a pretty nice set of ruins on satellite view. So with that to check out and something else of interest in the area, I decided to head out there Sunday.
The drive in was nice and nostalgic for me and the road seemed to be in pretty good shape. I was parked along the road and ready to hike by about 7:40 a.m. From the "trailhead" it was up and over Two Bar Mountain and then to the site I had spotted on satellite. The ruins were well ruins and some walls looked nice, most were collapsed, but the general layout of the Pueblo was very easily discernible. The collapse of some of the walls appears to have been accelerated by an obviously well used hunting camp, complete with some cached water and two torn open food caches in the boulders over looking the ruins. Nevertheless, I was still excited about the find. Although, oddly enough I actually found this ruin in 2012, well I should say, I spotted the outer wall. I spotted a nice intact section of its outer wall from the Two Bar Ridge Trail way back in 2012. However, I was in a rush and only checked out a few sections of what I thought was a cattle fence on the way to that section of wall and assumed it was part of a drift fence. Had I gone 50 feet further five years ago, I would have found this ruin then. I used basically the exact same route to return, so it was back and up over Two Bar again, with a "little" exploring along the way.
Final Notes:
It was great to be back in the eastern Supes today and looking for rock piles, one of my favorite past times. Glad there are still a few things to be found out there. I saw my first rattlesnake of the year, but it gave me plenty of warning and I gave it a wide berth. I think I found like five or six new sites today. The Salado really had those mountains, hills and ridgelines populated in that area. It was a little warm at times today, but there was some prolonged periods of unexpected cloud cover. As with what is usually the case when I go out there, I now have like five more new hike and explore ideas for out there. |
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