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| no partners | | Love it when things come together, got my permit and my printer cooperated. Saturday I was able to get going at a decent time. I hadn't been in this area in a couple of years so overdue to get back.
The drive in pleasant but deceptive. The desert clean and decorated with cholla, mesquite, greasewood and gravelly clearings. I turned onto a favorite side road and BOOM-- driving weaving thru the tall saguaros, in such a thick cluster I could almost reach out and touch from the Jeep. Soon my route climbed up and out of the wash and I could see the tall soldiers everywhere. It is some of my favorite desert. I drove toward the rock faces and car camped on a flat spot near the base of a large solitary saguaro with its massive arms.
The evening walk was productive. Vague rock outlines, pottery shards--one nice rim piece that I decided to stash in some cholla spines for it's protection--cleared off areas. This area I decided housed more than a few rock houses, all gone now, but up into the rock buttes a fair sized area with still some walls standing. Across the road was another area with probably hundreds of sherds and slightly more defined rock outlines, some showing evidence of digging in the past. A good nights sleep and out the next day.
I decided not to drive the nasty road that went to a saddle, even in the Jeep. A short walk did me good then I decided to go high on a sort of "ridgeline" route. I had done this years ago but couldn't remember all of it. Basically connecting saddles between rock formations. The photography was wonderful.
Lots of saguaros and big multicolored rock faces. I got to a place that I remember was a climb and decided to go down a ravine. That resulted in torn pants, cholla in my hands. I wandered in the foothills, was frustrated over a butte that I had a picture of from another angle and could not figure out how I got there.
Back to the Jeep a little different route. Changed pants and got tweezers for my hands. Worked out two more routes for me to do. As usual I saw no one, but plenty of RV campers on the way in. |
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