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| Seven Springs Rd Side Track, AZ | |
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Seven Springs Rd Side Track, AZ
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| Hiking | 3.94 Miles |
1,260 AEG |
| | Hiking | 3.94 Miles | | | |
| 1,260 ft AEG | | | | |
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| partners | | I received an invite from Larry to do some more exploring east of Seven Springs Road. He and his grandson have been out there recently scoping out ancient habitation sites and what-not. He had been wanting to examine a large fortress wall visible on Google Earth and visited by both @Hansenaz and @LindaAnn . I sent him the route from Linda's trip and it included a nice ruin on the way. We agreed to visit site #1 and play site #2 by ear.
We arrived at the "trailhead" (side of the road), and as soon as we got out of Larry's FJ he found a $5 bill on the ground. This was a good start! We began the off trail slog up to the first ruin and found it to be a very nice site. We agreed that there was minimal restacking involved. There was one main room with a doorway and many smaller rooms both attached and detached from it. There were also some defensive walls facing both north and south. Pottery sherds were not in abundance but were present.
We both had some gas left in the tank and headed uphill again to see the semi-circular thick defensive wall on the top of another hill. We crested hill 4456 and surveyed what we had left. It was a steep descent followed by another climb to get there. We both decided getting there wouldn't be too bad, but the return trip would be a bear so we took some zoom photos of the wall and retreated to from whence we came. Bailing out is another way of looking at it!
We made it back downhill the through the grass covered ankle rollers to look for more $5 bills near the truck. None were found so we headed back to Cave Creek for lunch at The Grotto Cafe. Larry had a nice visit with Cathy when he dropped me off.
Neither of us had seen him since the HAZ 2020 New Years Topper hike hosted by @outdoor_lover.
Thanks for the hike Larry...let's not wait two years for the next one! |
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Wildflowers Observation Moderate
Gooding's Verbena was the star of the day along with poppies, lupine, indian paintbrush, and others.
There was Desert Globemallow everywhere but not quite blooming yet. Should be a field of orange soon. |
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