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| Hiking | 10.40 Miles |
1,083 AEG |
| | Hiking | 10.40 Miles | 2 Hrs 47 Mns | | 3.74 mph |
| 1,083 ft AEG | | 10 LBS Pack | | |
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| no partners | | Took the Metate trail in, missed the petroglyph panel somewhere near the beginning will need to go back sometime. Got one nice pic of a metate and kept moving. A bit tight for time so I jogged as much as I could. The trails are in great shape, not terribly rocky, easy to follow. The cacti out in that area are absolutely enormous, 40+ feet tall. The water level was low so the foot bridges weren't necessary but I still had fun with the various plank boards, a log, and stone stepping. I cleaned up the GPS to remove long turns, etc so my distance went over.
There was relatively little off-trail for this one. It was a warm day but the grass was quite low so I wasn't too nervous. Then I heard something in a nearby bush at one point and stopped, made some noise and stomped a bit and waited and listened... bang! I was hit around my Achilles! I jumped out my skin and watched a large cactus chunk fling forward from my leg. Never so happy to be stabbed by a cactus.
I arrived a little north of the ruins and found just a bunch of big rocks and was pretty disappointed. But making my way south a little found well worn foot paths and then the real ruins which were pretty sprawling. A couple rooms had better remaining walls and weren't totally overgrown. There was 1 sherd laid out on a rock. I didn't have enough time to explore as much as I wanted to. I think I read there are other petroglyphs up on top, south of the ruins? Maybe someone can confirm.
I deviated from the official triplog that hurtles directly down the hillside. The topos had shown a gentler slope to the north that I planned to follow west to the ravine for only a small added distance. I was extra delighted to quickly run into a path as I headed north. Not sure if it was meant for people or just made by the cattle but it was as good as any trail I had taken this far and headed exactly where I wanted to go. The cattle smell was prevalent, but I pretended it was just good cheese. I accidentally spooked 1 cow up ahead as I ran downhill. The path made it super easy to get down to the ravine.
I came back south until I was below the ruins and there were obvious well-worn footpaths on the east side cutting up to where the big petroglyphs are. The main panel is really big and impressive, probably 4-5 feet across. The large stick man is maybe 1.5 feet tall alone. Again I would have liked to poke around the surrounding area a bit longer to see if there were other glyphs but had no time. I missed the metates and sherds in the area as well.
On the way out I felt a good sudden stab in the ball of my foot but only once. 50 yards later I get stabbed again. Took my shoe off, took off the laces, took out the insole, clearly a sharp thorn pierced up through the bottom and was now a spike in the corner of my shoe. I had forgotten to bring tweezers and it was wedged in there pretty good, but managed to get it out with my fingers. |
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