Got home from workout and was really missing our regular weekend hike so we headed up to Carefree to the Blue Wash trailhead to check out the waterfall. There was a lot of other people who had the same idea, but it was still a beautiful hike.
About an hour North of home near Sedona is the Red Tank Draw. I found this place by watching a few videos, reading other blogs and asking around a little. There are petroglyphs here from the Sinagua people that lived here from 1150 to 1400ad. My main goal was to find the handprint, which is…
An easy 1.5 mile hike will put you off the i17 freeway and into the Agua Fria National Monument at the Richinbar Mine. From 1905 to 1948 the Richinbar Mine was owned by 3 different companies mining the earth for gold, silver, copper and lead. Today, remnants of the mine still exist, as well as…
A fun trip I had a little while back. It’s somewhat remote, and just amazing landscape. Petroglyphs are from 2 different people that lived here, the Hohokam, and the Patayan. The Patayan came later, but both lived here from about 800ad to 1400 ad. There are also a number of names etched into the rocks…
