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| Hiking | 7.87 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 7.87 Miles | 4 Hrs 53 Mns | | 1.69 mph |
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| no partners | | Returned to an area east of Flagstaff that had a lot of Sinagua (I think) inhabitants in the past. I had marked some waypoints based on satellite snooping though nothing was real definite. Anyway I mainly wandered around trying to visit waypoints if I got near them.
Waypoint success (i.e. marking something ancient) was about 50:50 and I passed some small ruins. There was pottery almost everywhere I went all day but of course concentrated near the ruins. At the end of the day I passed a fairly large "L-shaped" ruin which I've found to be a common design in the area south of Wupatki. It sits on a small hill with a nice 270deg view, its back to Merriam Crater.
Much of the walk was along Youngs Canyon which made a good impression. It's not very deep, with white rock terraces on the south side and some black basalt on the north side. I was surprised to find petroglyphs (mainly faint) on the basalt. The canyon bottom consisted of black "cinder sand" with reddish sand/dirt just above on both sides. |
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