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| no partners | | Finally made the trip out to this awesome section of land and site after many hikes in the nearby Jacks Canyon area.
The drive itself was half the adventure as it was all new country for me and the wide open expanse of mass amounts of land was a breath of fresh air.
Parked at the old US Agriculture sign for the ruins and made my way up the gentle hilltop and explored around for awhile in the exposed sun.
The biggest surprise of the day was not the sheer amount of pottery or petroglyphs but rather the most random amount of healthy flowing water in Chavez Pass!
I’m still trying to figure if it was from record snowmelt or just one of the richest wells and aquifers I’ve ever encountered as the only thing feeding the particular drainage that resembled a healthy creek is a small game tank up above.
This is the first time out of all the ancient Indian Ruins I’ve visited where a present day reliable water source was within a true easy reach/walk, other than that I’m always perplexed and amazed on how these civilization had access to water without long travel or a rough rugged trek down and up some god forsaken canyon.
My grandparents informed me that the Chavez Pass area and the roads around it were used in bush plane drug smuggling operations back in the 1980’s which just added to the mystique of visiting this already appealing historic area.
One of many trips to come for this region as there is just way too much to see and discover out there. |
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