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| Hiking | 5.91 Miles |
434 AEG |
| | Hiking | 5.91 Miles | 2 Hrs 54 Mns | | 2.12 mph |
| 434 ft AEG | 7 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | I hadn't been to the Sonoran Desert National Monument before so I headed out to see if I could find any remnants of the Komatke Trail. Archaeologists and historians say it connected the Lower Gila River people with the Phoenix basin and was still in use when the Spanish first passed through. I've walked part of the trail before (further east in the Estrellas [ triplog ] , [ triplog ] ) but the path through the open desert is harder to find. There's a video recently posted on Youtube by Southwest Archaeology (google Komatke Trail) showing some work documenting its location.
Anyway I didn't find a thing, not a sherd. But it's nice open desert out there, no weeds or litter, and just a fine place to walk around.
I spiced it up a little by seeing if I could complete a driving loop on some desert road. That was fun: about 20mi of often sandy and off-camberish driving but almost no rocks. Fun in a Subaru, probably NG for a Corolla. The driving route is here [ gps route ] .
It's good they made a NM out here...the rest of the area seems to be (literally) filling up with giant landfills. |
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