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| Hiking | 4.75 Miles |
352 AEG |
| | Hiking | 4.75 Miles | 4 Hrs 10 Mns | | 1.35 mph |
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| no partners | | A college friend (Tony) recently moved to AZ and for a few months we'd talked about taking a trip up to Perry Mesa to look around. We invited Greg (@LosDosSloFolks), who also knows Tony, and he was interested in coming along. But when it got to the selected day Greg looked at the cumulative rainfall in the area and bowed out.
I was also concerned about Perry Mesa mud and so I planned 3 different "intro loops". The preferred one was furthest in but if the road mud was bad we probably still could reach one of the others. The plan included Tony's new Jeep which he wanted to break in.
Well many of the streams were running and the road was muddier than I would try in my Subaru. We confidently passed my first "mud bailout loop", but the road kept getting worse and I proposed we stop at an upcoming gate to discuss "the situation". At the gate, I could tell Tony didn't want to drive further when he parked it pointing back the way we came. But we were within a mile of the second loop so we just started walking through the dry grass to intersect it. Mud was a couple inches thick on our boots.
The walking was generally OK if grass and rocks were strategically used to minimize mud and we passed some petroglyphs, pottery pieces, metates and a ruin. Tony and his Jeep got a good, though as I told him repeatedly, worst case, introduction to Perry Mesa. |
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