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| Hiking | 7.70 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 7.70 Miles | 5 Hrs 2 Mns | | 1.94 mph |
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| no partners | | Drove out to the Reynold's Creek trailhead to get out of the desert and into the pines, for a nice change of pace. The object of my hike was the Hell's Hole hilltop pueblo. I'll begin by stating that the trail is magnificent, but then I'm not all that used to hiking on actual trails anyway, and when I do, they are typically rocky beyond all reason. Here we have a nice, wide dirt trail, only occasionally adorned by a few rocks here and there.
Hike begins by climbing about 250' before slowly descending 600'+ toward Workman Creek. The last bit toward the creek is all steep switchbacks and rocks, but it doesn't last long. The creek was easy to cross, but the trail was a bit challenging to find on the other side. After a few minutes of wandering about, I solved the puzzle and carried on. The trail continued to be a little more difficult to follow here, in large part because it was buried under autumn leaf litter.
Trail continues back up and past the Boyer fork to the base of the little hill, then up I went after a brief skirmish with some heavy underbrush. There is a little two-room pueblo a little more than halfway up, and then the main event. In addition to 6'-7' tall perimeter walls, lots of 3'-4' walls within. This is a BIG, fairly well-preserved ruin with plenty of rooms. Also, within the confines of the ruin are more agaves than I had ever before seen at a ruin, in addition to a couple of very unusual Opuntia hybrids. |
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