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| Hiking | 7.60 Miles |
1,113 AEG |
| | Hiking | 7.60 Miles | 4 Hrs 38 Mns | | 1.73 mph |
| 1,113 ft AEG | 14 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | Friday afternoon I still had no plan for a Saturday hike. So I dug deep and thought I'd go and check out a couple of interesting things I noticed in satellite pictures of the Woolsey Wilderness... but I didn't have high expectations for excitement. Then it occurred to me that really I should be out looking for mysterious monoliths - way more relevant nowadays.
I always enjoy walking in the nice open desert. When I got on top of a bump that had "something" on top, I found it was a nice stone circle but not convincingly ancient (or somewhat re-stacked by later visitors). It did have a Fliver-type "Height of Light" or "Tower of Power" (great horn section) on top.
I continued along to find a rock arrangement I hadn't been to before. Its a distinct manmade X. Without any context I'd think it was modern, made for "whatev" - but it's actually pretty close to some other rock arrangements (I've visited before) that archaeologists and native people apparently take seriously and are pretty cool.
I didn't find any monoliths but I didn't look behind every saguaro. I saw a spot where possibly someone had already removed a monolith - you'll have to decide yourself. |
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