Petroglyphs And Geo-Cache Christmas Hike

Mimbres Style Petroglyphs

Mimbres Style Quadruped

Portal Rodeo Hiking Club went to Jack Wood Canyon, Chiricahua Mountains hiking with permission from the ranch owner to view this beautiful canyon, it was my first time there. The ranch hand took us part way through the gates and told us about Petroglyphs and showed us some. These Petroglyphs are Most western Mimbres style site found. According to this link the Cochise College Libraries has this on file. We had 10 hikers this week and we were very pleasantly surprised with our findings, other hikers who have been here before never saw these Mimbres style Petroglyphs. Some one in the hiking club found on the Cochise College web site that the Mogollon lived in the Southwest from approximately A D 150 until sometime between A D 1300 and A D 1400.

Sun

Dragon Fly

I did take so many pictures of this that is was very difficult to pick the best ones.

We hiked 6 miles into the beautiful canyon had our lunch, the temperatures became cold with some wind so we decided to head back. We wanted to look for more petroglyphs and check out geo-cache.  One of the hikers has a GPS and said that a geo-cache was in the area so we looked and found that.

Geo-cache

 Portal Rodeo Hiking Club

 It is so much fun looking for a geo-cache as some hikers never heard about this adventure. We did add something to the container but did not take anything out,  left it for the next person or group to find.

This hike is also available to find hiking through  Horseshoe Canyon in the Chiricahua Mountains.