Long Hike To Some Pre-Contact American Indian Ruins In The Desert
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- Опубліковано 17 гру 2022
- This is a kinda long video where I hike out to some very early American Indian ruins and then take an even longer hike to a hidden desert oasis complete with sulfur springs.
About Aquachigger:
I enjoy metal detecting for historical items like gold coins, relics, silver coins, and other buried treasures. I also metal detect for gold and silver nuggets and even meteorites. I like to make videos that promote my choice of lifestyle that includes outdoor adventure,
metal detecting, yapping, searching for river treasure, SCUBA diving, exploring abandoned places, hiking, caving, caring for animals and pets, and observing the things outdoors that often go unnoticed by most people who are not familiar with outdoor adventures and nature. I keep my UA-cam "Aquachigger" channel family-friendly and hope you subscribe if you like my style.
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I spend a lot of time in Az, and one day, several years ago was riding my friend’s horse. Of course, I got lost, Thank GOD the horse was a 15 year old intelligent and sweet male, named Wilson. When I had given up to find my way back, I said: “Home Wilson, Home.” He looked up (at the sun?) turned around and walked us back to the barn. Otherwise, I think Chigger would have found my bones on this video. Anyway, somewhere, don’t ask me where during the trip I was, but I found a perfect medicine wheel. It had been there years and years, but you could clearly see what it was. It was an almost spiritual connection to the desert and the people that used to live there. Thanks Chig!
Those holes are from wild pigs or peckery or what we call skunk pigs. Most commonly known as javelina. You're only about 30 mi away from where I live in this video. Last year they came through and wiped out my garden. They dug with their snouts all throughout my garden look just like that. But nothing but a giant rodent that look like pigs taste good but smell like shit.
Javelina are not related to rodents. They’re actually a New World pig or Tayassuidae. Collared peccary
There are so many ruins around there and Mayer.Also the petroglyphs off badger springs rd are amazing! Cool adventure
A big hello from England. I love it wen you do ones where you tell us the history like this thank you Chigg x
Thanks.
I live in the New Mexico Desert and about once a year (usually when it is 110) I think I need to move to somewhere green. I then wait it out and go out camping for a couple of weeks and find myself saying, god, I love the desert. Anyway, Chigg does rightb by the beautiful desert and is always so respectful and informative.
I also live in New Mexico on the edge of the desert. Nothing like the sunsets and sunrises around here.
@@davidsidwell8749 Hi Neighbor and yes...sunrise and sunset!
Yo! Albuquerque BIATCH! 🤟🏻
I live in New Mexico and constantly find green places. I hunted in the Gila in September and got rained on every day 🤷♂️
I've lived in the Arizona desert for 37 years. To my never ending surprise, I have seen that the people who really love the desert love Summer in the desert more than they love Winter.
I hope you enjoy this little adventure! It's a little long, but I enjoyed the hike.
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My hats off for all that you do.
Excellent video. ❤
Little long?
Video is too short.
Chigg ? Look into the Paracus people on YT. Think outside the box. 📦
Chigg, since you didn’t show us any snakes, I’m guessing you were fortunate enough not to cross paths with any rattlers this day? I’m curious if the sinkhole type depressions you’d see in mass in select areas could be from seismic activity in select areas where there were dry pockets below the ground from the drought you referenced? I live in Florida where we get monster sinkholes and I’ve noticed that they almost always start out with small spots very similar to what you showed before ours end up getting HUGE if the pocket underground is large enough because the water table has dropped so significantly? It’s just a thought since I wouldn’t think the empty pockets under ground wouldn’t be very sizable in that location because of the extremely limited amount of rain there? That’s my best guess if they aren’t from underground burrowing animals of some kind? 🤷♂️
Been there. The Bloody Basin trail continues east all the way to Sheep’s Bridge across the Verde River - tough trail.
I love your videos like this one. I didn't know this place existed before this. Very interesting. Makes me want to explore.
Thanx Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE
Thanks for taking us along on your hike. And for explaining some of the history of the area to us along the way. Enjoyed watching!
That was a lovely little oasis in the desert. You wouldn't believe it was there if you hadn't gone down to see it.
I remember hiking out there quite a few decades ago, when I was a bit younger, and visiting the Anasazi cliff dwellings. What fascinated me when I got to the top was the fact that you could see their hand prints on the walls. My hands were considerably larger than theirs, and the entrances to the various rooms were significantly lower, indicating that they were considerably smaller than we are today which is understandable. Fascinating trip out there!
I live in Scottsdale and had no idea this place was about an hour outside of Phoenix. Love the adventure you're on. I gotta get out more!!!!!
My Mother's side of the family is from Rainsville , New Mexico , N.E. New Mexico and as a small child , I'll never forget, the rooster crowing at the break of dawn , opening the front door of the house and the fresh mountain air hitting My face and wow was it amazing and off to the mountains I went to explore and not come back till dusk ... I love New Mexico !
Aquachigger, You are are an amazing man, i have studied history for over 60 years, and you Sir are an Ace. Always interesting, informative, and listening to you narrate as you go is simply perfection. Have a Wonderful Week My Friend!
Another Hello from the UK! I love all these videos, as I've been to Arizona and California, and in the desert. Your videos are all so entertaining though. Glad you had such a good time while you were out there.
Very cool. You may be interested in researching Indian Mesa, a pretty incredible Hohokam fortress overlooking the Agua Fria just north of Lake Pleasant.
I absolutely love how you went from the harshness of the desert into the green in just a short trek! I love hiking out west! Thanks for sharing the beauty and history!😊
That is such a cool place and what a nice find. I grew up in a place where the Anasazi ruins were 45 miles away the Mesa Verde ruins were 35 miles away and the Aztec ruins were 18 miles away . My father was able to get some beans out of the aztec and started the first Aztec Bean!
What's that, a fast-food joint? 😄
@@lyndonreddick1888 When you order beans from a seed catalog some companies have aztec beans They are a large bean like a lima bean but the taste is really great compared to a regular green bean and they cook up really great!
@@woodybogg Thanks, I think Cowboy Ken might have mentioned them on his cooking show.
I would ride my bicycle and hiked all over Arizona and very rarely if ever saw anyone. (expect in the usual spots)
love seeing old stomping grounds.
I know that Jack rabbits, kit foxes and desert tortoises build deep borrows. The rabbits and foxes live in small family units and the borrows can be extensive. I myself have accidentally stepped on several over the years and have gone in almost to my knee.
I love the way you always put yourself out there, and take us along!!!
Don't they have prairie dogs out there? Don't know if they would have made the holes & I reckon your curious sighting device is the frame for signage - the sign is somewhere in the wind! Enjoyable hike & I like how you describe the archaeologist's findings as not being categoric - there has to be quite a bit no one knows about what was going on back then. But isn't it interesting that a major drought was devastating humans & land back then - climate is an amazingly variable influence over our lives. Always love these Adventures, Beau - Merry Christmas to you & Lindsay. And furry friends...
Seeing new country is best you can do, great hike. That little sulfur spring is cool too ,tya brother.
I sure am appreciative of these adventures of yours! I get to see so many wonderful things through your camera lens, that I would never see with my own eyes! I'm old and broken and could not make that hike!! Thanks for taking us with you!!!
Love this area. History, geology and a nice long drive to sheeps bridge. Lots knapping materials to be found. 👍👍🇺🇸
very cool chig. always cool to learn some early history of this land. hope you enjoyed your adult beverage at the end of the hike!
I like watching your Western Adventures the best! Thanks for sharing these!
11:19 looks like mounting rails for a sign - wide one on top, narrower ones below
Amazes me the amount of pottery laying on the ground…
Oh yeah! That was perfect. So much history.
When I was a kid in the early eighties I got to go visit Sky City in New Mexico if you don't know what it is Google it or check it out it's one of those Pueblo cities like you're going to built on the top of a Mesa I actually climbed the old Indian route instead of taking the easy walking route for the tourists what a memory and then I got to see how the real American Indians live on the reservation wow what a tragedy poverty everywhere
Loving your adventures in the desert, I spend a lot of time in similar places exploring.
The holes are lava tube vents. The dirt is falling into the tunnels when the lava cooled on the outside and kept flowing on the inside creating large and small tubes. Those are all over North East California. Fun to explore the tubes when they are large enough.
Those holes might be javelina pig holes where they rooted !
Thats what I thought too-
Thanks for the hike, I enjoyed it very much.
When I was younger and lived in the southwest we were told those holes were from artifact pirates digging holes looking for stuff. That was in the late 1950s and early 60s though.
You went in on Bloody Basin Rd? If you'd stayed on that road and turned on Tangle Creek Rd. you would end up at the sheep bridge on the Verde River. A really neat place Chig.
MORE LEARNING HAD FROM THE EDUCATION MASTER WELL DONE AND THANKS .
I hope I can get out there next year. Where I grew up in Alabama, Ramer, and Grady are some old sights where all you walk on is just broken pottery. It though is pre Indian, from some 4000 years ago. It's strange the pot shards I've found some look the same as what you showed. Most of it isn't as polished. Great vid. Thanks
Mr. Aquachigger, I just want to say, I've been subscribed to your channel for several years now, but to be honest, I stopped watching a few years ago. Not because of you, but because I so much want to be doing the things you are doing, and I so rarely get the opportunity to, that it just hurts to watch. I am happy that there are people like you out there finding the forgotten treasures that are out there. Never stop doing what you love, Mr. Aquachigger.
Wow, thank you
Jared, I gotta agree with you. It hurts so much to not be able to do that anymore. I live vicariously through Beau now.
Those round posts with the horizontal aluminum bars are directional beacons for incoming extraterrestrials.
I love Agua Fria... One of the lesser explored places in North Central AZ... Merry Christmas Aquachigger!
Nice to be in the desert on an adventure! Takes your breath away and so much to ponder about the early people of that region. They were truly caretakers of our planet.
Beautiful ruggedness. Thanks for the virtual hike!
Wow!! Thanks for sharing this with us!! Take care everybody and ....."H APPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!" ♥︎
Good hike!, Thanks, Chigg.
Thanks for all the videos and all your hard work. I have learned an incredible amount about metal detecting from you
This was a great walk.Thanks for sharing the beauty of the land.
Love those hidden gems throughout the SW. enjoy exploring. Great video.
Excellent video thanks 🇬🇧
The wife and I sat and enjoyed that video, thank you. We were in some of the exact spots as you a couple of years ago. Love Agua Fria and Bloody Basin. You filled in the blanks for us as far as who was here, and I got to see where that damn pipe went and there really is water right there. I now know the Agua Fria and the Hassayampa both run underground for long stretches. Waiting for the next video of out west. Thanks for sharing! Happy Holidays!
Happy to hear you guys enjoyed the video.
A neat place to check out is sunset crater in Flagstaff AZ
Yep, been there.
If the "sign" was actually a sign at one time, where are the mounting holes? Why use expensive aluminum and 2 posts made of metal? To me, it looks very much like an antenna of some sort.
Every adventure with you Chigg is amazing since so many of us are stuck indoors in frozen areas! Can’t wait for the next adventure!!
It's amazing how interested I am just watching you hike and explore, things I'd love to do wish I had done before I became disabled, things I thought of but just was to busy working to do.
Get Chiggy wit it!!!!!!
Love your walk abouts so interesting 👏👏👍😜
Chigg,
Those Archaic Tribes would have had spears with throwing sticks as well as rocks.
I went to Montezuma's Castle back in 1968, at that time it wasn't developed and I could walk
all around the ruins alone.. That was great.
I also met a fellow who owned a Holiday Inn in Limon, Colorado.
He did water surveying and told me he had found many Native American sites in the plains country
with pottery and other relics.
With such massive amounts of unexplored land it's not surprising that so much history still lies there, undiscovered.
Thanks for sharing these fascinating sites.
CHeers,
Rik
Thanks for sharing.
"The trail we're on" *points to brush and rocks* lol
This is wonderful.. thank you for sharing..
Thanks as always Chigg!
the pile of rocks could be for water collection. they would often be in little holes/sunken areas and gather morning dew btwn the rocks and such.
enjoyed tagging along. you are a interesting story teller for sure. merry Christmas to all of yall
These videos where you find running water in arid places are really fun. Down along that stream it was so lush you'd never guess how arid it was just a few hundred feet away. Great video.
Great video and really brings the history to life. Amazing to think there are pieces of pottery that are of that age just scattered about
Much Tanx. this is one of few i not see in SW when lived in Mesa 1980-2012. i bike camped, winnibago rv a year, old dodge pu truck, etc. now too pained to walk hike as before. i still hope plan to bike tour usa camping, but ol age akes makes me apricate retire and tour by tv/youtube armchair trips n trecks. again i cant place were is in my mind tho seen much or most...
Thanks for letting me know. Wishing you a great new year.
Another good video.👍
Apaches in AZ watching Aquachigger videos.
Nice hike through some very interesting countryside!
If you want to see an interesting very well preserved Anasazi ruin then go up north to Three Turkey Ruins near Canyon DeChelly in Arizona.
Real beautiful, as far as those sink holes.....you ever watch Tremors..?😳
I enjoy your video's about history, thank you for the interesting information
Chigg, you've never seen a bow made from bighorn horn with a wood core. They're more powerful than the Spanish smooth bores at the time and these people were masters of making them. Although the folks living in the area were called the peaceful people by their friends, it was the time of the athabaskan migration into the area. Think Dine and apache. Those were the peoples that the moki(peaceful people) built their cliff houses against.
I've been through a lot of this area. Now I live in PA. Thanks for the memories.
oh yeah another Aquachigger video. I look forward toe the song at the end.
Good afternoon from Southeast South Dakota
'Afternoon.
BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the early WINTER out look is HELLACIOUS some of the long term models has the winds over ONE HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR the week after Xmas GOOD LUCK .long time fan Creighton from NOR-CAL>>>>
Love the video, never been to Arizona, so I’m loving this! I wonder if at one time that water was a lot higher?
We Can Go Look All The Time If You Want. I Dont Have To Go To Work Now I Did My Time Now It's Play Time.😎👍✌.
Cool area...Nice hike, Chigg 👍
Went there when I lived in Chandler a few years back. Lot of really cool things in the desert!
Always a good vid when we get to tag along with ya, Chigg. No matter what ya come across or not.
Another nice adventure , thanks for sharing it with us Chigg.
Good Vid , As Per Normal ...
Always A Pleasure Watchin .
- Godspeed
Great video!❤
I was reading the atrocities Indian tribes did to other Indian tribes was intense
It was still a good hike I enjoyed seeing the places where buildings used to be. Be careful Chigg watch out for a Sams Squinch GOD BLESS
Spend a night or so camping in that ravine with the water and the wildlife will be quite evident. So cool.
What is the plan for a snake bite. Could happen with that much walking and not wearing snake boots.
Dang I just drove by there, I'll have to stop and check that place out sometime 👍
That's Cool!!
That's pretty amazing to see chunks of pottery laying around there still.
I agree! I thought his point about when people (illegally) take them home, they likely will eventually just end up in the trash, was probably accurate. All of us need to resist the temptation to take souvenirs when we visit such places. Good of Beau to remind us.
Jeez. That looks really snakey.
Really nice video you really covered a lot of area.
Great video agro trigger from Bryer Floyd and merry Christmas and god bless
Interesting, most native bows I have researched had a draw weight between 50 to 100lbs, which was very powerful and effective.
Alright!! Nice Hike
Someday I woyld like to go on a hike with ya.
Strangely enough Europe had a drought at the same time period, the dates are recorded on stone's on the river Elbe, look up the "hunger stones " .
Id agree with that "They end up going in the dumpster when they die and the kids inherit everything." Im in residential construction, and just last week the contractor told me to throw away 2 stones that were in the homeowners yard, the homeowner didnt want them. It really bothered me because they were square on 5 of 6 sides, and had a unique bull-nose detail on 2 edges. These weren't just stones, they were part of a building at some point. The fact that the history behind them is lost and now I just threw them in the dumpster makes me sad...
Yep. It's sad for sure.
That sign thing looks to me like some type of antenna! I’m into ham radio and it kind looks like a beam or yagi antenna but it’s pointing down! I’m not sure what it is, is there any military activity in that area? It could be something to do with radar testing from a Lomb ways away?
OK?
@@dougtodd305 ok then
Nerd alert,that's not an antenna