Friday, January 25, 2013

Three Canyon Hike In Chiricahua Mountains

Portal Rodeo Hiking Club

Pond
Dam
Portal Rodeo Hiking Club of 23 people went to Horseshoe Canyon, Blevins Draw, to Jack Wood Canyon in the Chiricahua Mountains. We hiked a total of 10 miles, saw a Dam with no water a pond with water so the animals can find a drink.


We hiked past a place of history where Cochise had a attack on the Calvary back  around 1860's and looking around it sure was a perfect place for this to happen. Several weeks ago we hiked to a Mimbres Petroglyphs ( rock art) which was from Jack Wood Canyon this week we went  from a different approach. Most western Mimbres style site found, according to this link the Cochise College Libraries has this on file.
Mogollon lived in the Southwest from approximately A D 150 until sometime between A D 1300 and A D 1400.
 Petroglyphs
This rock art is in great shape and this blog has a few different Petroglyphs than the Jack Wood hike ones I blogged.
 We had great views during this hike, the weather was great as we had cloud cover and around 70 degrees.

 Petroglyphs


4 comments:

  1. Looks like it was another great day to be out on the landscape.

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  2. It was a great hike and a good way to meet new hikers.

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  3. . . . . and some folks that haven't hiked in a long time, too. One emailed me she missed seeing me. She's worked so much the last several months, she has not hiked in our group for ages. sorry I missed her. I'll hike next week for sure.

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  4. With a group of 23 people we hike is several smaller groups and different speeds. I also met a new person on this hike, all such nice folks.

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