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| no partners | | We were recovering from the flu, so decided to go back to an old favorite area and vancamp and play things by ear depending on energy levels. This includes a bit from the afternoon/evening before when we got to the area.
I was curious about this area off of FR 71, so this seemed like a good time to slowly wander up some hills and do some aerial recon.  Overall it wasn't as interesting as the land east of 71, but there are some areas of interest:
* As per @grasshopper's earlier explorations, there's some rock wall ruins on the USGS peak 5074.
* There are very similar ruins on peak 5097, just east of Cane Spring.
* Some neat pillars along the rim of Maverick Basin just north of peak 5097.
* The unnamed spring along Walnut Creek just north of FR 1413 has some nice slickrock and modest pillars. There were pools of water below this spring in Walnut Creek.
* There's an interesting little badlands area of rolling rock near FR 1414 NW of Cane Spring.
* A large cairn near the SW corner of 5595 that reminded me of some of the old ones along the copper points rim.
Occasional blips of slickrock in creek beds or interesting rock formations, but overall I'd put this lower down the priority list than the stuff west of it. |
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