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| no partners | | | While scrolling GE, 2 very defined circular formations caught my husbands eye among some boulder fields. After consulting my TNF maps I discovered it was possible to take FS roads to within a mile of the formations. The terrain from the road to the rocks looked rather unforgiving but where there’s a will there’s a way! I dropped a pin into the area of circles on my Gaia app and we headed up the mountains. After a solid 10 miles of off-road two-wheel maneuvering we arrived at a gigantic boulder field between 2 springs which actually held water! Now we just needed to decide which one was the better path down the mountain side to our GE treasures. The fact that they lay between two running springs solidified my hunch that we had stumbled upon some ruins. We began descending on easy hard packed rocky ground that quickly cleaved its way between rock walls and down slightly wet waterfall beds into thicker and thicker vegetation. Thankfully it was not manzanita or catclaw but as you know the majority of plant life out here still tries to skin you alive as you pass! After rapidly losing elevation for about 30 minutes along the spring bed I checked my map and decided it was time to turn south in order to get to my pin drop. Up and over boulders we climbed and after about 15 minutes came to a fence line that was unexpected. We followed along the fence a few minutes looking up into the giant rock piles and soon spotted what I had hoped to find, a dry stacked rock wall! Once up and over the fence I began seeing the outline of the structure and finding pottery as well as tool shards scattered about. There were in fact 2 circular rock walls surrounding smaller rock walled rooms sitting in the middle of a confluence of not only 2 but 4 springs which all contained flowing water! I discovered pieces of broken metates, arrow heads, multiple pot sherds, and incredible views. After scurrying around the ruins for an hour we began our ascent up the spring that we had not come down. I decided this was the better path to travel if I were to return. Wide open boulder crawling along multiple tiny waterfall trickles and ponds back to the top. |
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