Wet Beaver Creek Mar 09
Off FR 618 between I-17 and Hwy 260`
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WET BEAVER CREEK
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We start from the Hwy 179 trailhead east of I-17
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Harry reties a shoe
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The first stirrings of spring!
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Sinagua petroglyphs
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Snack break: this fruit tree is probably not native
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...But who cares, because it's the first to flower
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The creek is high with spring melt from Flagstaff
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Dennis entertains one of our new guests
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Weather is coming, but today it's still distant
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This little side trail leads to a SInagua ruin
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A collapsed wall
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One small piece of standing wall
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At this junction, trails fork to the weir and to the swimming hole
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We take the weir path
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We find a lunch spot by the gauge station
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The old ranch dam, now abandoned
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The gauging station monitors the water level, continually transmitting
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The station is solar powered
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This zipline allows engineers to check water depths across the creek
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Moving out...
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We take this side trail toward the boys' school
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A spring meadow
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We pause for another view of the creek near the school
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Back to the main trail
