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| no partners | | I took a different approach to hiking to the lower coon creek ruins. I started from the camping area at 203 and dry creek. Dry creek is a nice easy walk with an old road leading the 1st 1/4 mile then the creek bed and game trails make it easy to navigate. After 45 minutes I turned left out of dry creek at its confluence with 2 unnamed dry streams near the “spring” labeled on Gaia and OnX maps. After climbing to the top of the hill there I was staring bold faced at the hill the ruins are perched on. I then squirreled my way down to coon creek and up the game trails to the ruins. The trip in took about 2 hours with a few photo/binocular stops on the way. I was surprised how thick the vegetation is near the river and up into the ruin! I may now identify as a desert plant with the amount of thorns imbedded in my legs  …. Definitely worth it all for the views and magnificent rock formations surrounding the ruins!!! How they managed to stack the stones on those steep hillsides is beyond me.
This is my 1st post here but not at all my 1st hike in the TNF/Sierra Anchas. If I can figure out how to add my photos I will! |
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…. Definitely worth it all for the views and magnificent rock formations surrounding the ruins!!! How they managed to stack the stones on those steep hillsides is beyond me. 
