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| | Hiking | 19.83 Miles | 12 Hrs | | 1.76 mph |
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| no partners | | Once this summer from the future finally gave me a break (PHX highs less than 100deg), I headed north to get outside. Little did I know this would be such a brief temperature dip. Anyway I first headed to Holbrook with two vague plans: 1) walk around some near-town buttes and look for petroglyphs, and 2) move over a few miles and look for meteorites!
This didn't work out very well. Only things of interest I saw on the speculative petroglyph hunt were a few old (and new) inscriptions and then a pretty nice concentration of "highly preserved" petrified wood. I looked it up - that's what you call petrified wood that looks just like wood.
I was excited to do a meteorite hunt. I even bought an $8 magnet-on-a-stick. But it proved to be way harder than I expected. Expectations set by a YT video I watched with experts doing a very recent successful hunt on the 1912 Holbrook strewnfield. But reality was weedy ground all chewed up by cattle tracks.
Disappointed by my day in Holbrook, I spent the night in Flagstaff and next morning hit the cinders south of Wupatki. I hoped to find all sorts of stuff as I walked to a ruin visible on old maps and satellite, at a spring north of Roden Crater. This was better: I passed pottery and a couple small collapsed ruins along the way and I made it to the target ruin which is an impressive sandstone structure. But it's a weird one. The construction was much more haphazard than the norm around here (the sandstone bricks seemed deliberately "crooked") and at least parts of it looked like modern build or rebuild. It's possible the whole thing was built in the last 150yrs. No pottery there. I dunno.
I'd have preferred a more authentic-looking ruin but was glad to get out and if it ever drops below 100deg again I'm going out again. |
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