Another trip to Sedona to find yet another set of Sinagua ruins that we’d heard about. We got lucky with accurate GPS coordinates and were stunned at the size of the ruin and that some of the walls still retained some of the original mortar. Prior to finding this ruin, I did climb a hill…
In Gila Bend there is a small, somewhat hidden canyon that contains some red rock similar to Sedona. This lone section of red rock in the desert was used by Native Americans called the Patayan. They inhabited this area over 1000 years ago and left their mark on the walls of the slot canyons here.…
The Mindeleff Cavates in Verde Valley offer a unique look into the Sinagua Indian way of life. Close to the river, but still offering a defensable position on the cliffside. They had a great view of the river and valley below and the caves must’ve been at least 15 degrees cooler inside than the outside…
We drove out to Gillespie Dam in Arlington AZ to check out the petroglyph site there. We’d heard there was another good section aside from the main one that gets heavy traffic, so we decided to go hunting. We got extremely lucky and found a large number of petroglyphs. The one in the main image…
I’d been wanting to find these ruins for a long time. There’s not much information on where they are, so I spent quite some time researching the location. I feel like I was lucky finding them, even though I know many people have visited them before me. These ruins were left by the Sinagua people…
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.
