Badger Springs Trail - Agua Fria

Hiked down the wash on the Badger Springs Trail to see the petroglyphs. It was a fun walk, though a bit hot, until we got to a point in the wash where boulders lined the trail. You had to walk down a narrow path between the rocks. As we started I spotted a snake coiled up in a notch in the rock. We would have walked within 6 inches of it if we had not spotted it. I was told it was a Western Diamondback rattlesnake. Rattlesnake is all I needed to hear! Anyway, we detoured and still got to see the petroglyphs. They were pretty amazing but the Aqua Fria River was a series of mucky pools with cattle resting alongside. Not very picturesque.

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Petroglyphs on the rocks

The Aqua Fria was pretty well dried up

Lots of tracks in the dried mud.  I guess we were not the first down this path!