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| PFNP East of Crystal Forest, AZ | |
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PFNP East of Crystal Forest, AZ
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| Hiking | 6.49 Miles |
560 AEG |
| | Hiking | 6.49 Miles | 4 Hrs 15 Mns | | 1.65 mph |
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| no partners | | It's a long drive and during the week the forecast kept getting hotter (98deg in Holbrook). But in the end I decided to go anyway.
I think every Petrified Forest trip I've logged I say just how nice the place is and how much I like walking around up there and today it was re-confirmed. I was hoping to find a petroglyph site but the direction were none to precise ("it's near a tree"). Luckily there aren't many trees out there and I found it on the 5th try. It's a small site and I was initially bothered that I couldn't find the "star" glyph (the one on the book cover). But eventually I figured it out (see the pictures).
I continued along, on the mesa top and bottom just enjoying the flat open walking, the petrified wood, the eroded formations, the random pottery pieces, the occasional petroglyph, and a man-made rock structure. Of course the petrified wood steals the show: the beautiful specimens (color, patterns, length, mass, etc) are hard to describe and need to be seen.
I'll keep doing that long drive, the heat was bearable and it was another fun day. |
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