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| Hiking | 9.61 Miles |
1,056 AEG |
| | Hiking | 9.61 Miles | 6 Hrs 13 Mns | | 1.92 mph |
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| no partners | | We went to Perry Mesa and the Agua Fria National Monument today to look for a duck. We did not find the duck, but that did not detract from an otherwise perfect day up on the mesa.
We accessed Perry Mesa from the Badger Springs area and then took a series of roads over to one of the larger Perry Mesa ruin complexes. The walk across the mesa was pretty eventful, as I found a projectile point shortly after climbing out of the Agua Fria drainage and then we ran across the largest herd of pronghorn that I have seen in Arizona. It was quite the sight to walk parallel to them for a few tenths of a mile. When they moved as an entire herd it almost resembles something more consistent with a flock of birds from a distance versus a herd of ungulates. The ruin complex was one of the better ones on the mesa in terms of setting and size and it was quite the area to walk through. We found several great glyph panels in the area, which proved to be of the superb nature and I found them to be as interesting and thought provoking as any other glyphs that I have come across out there. After spending well over an hour at the site walking through the rubbles, staring in awe at the glyphs and walking around with our heads down looking at all of the sherds, we headed back. On the hike back we ran across our pronghorn herd again and stumbled across one more nice glyph. |
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