 Hey guys, Merry Christmas! We are here in the Superstition Mountains at the trailhead of the Hieroglyphic Trail. It's a modern hike in the Superstition Mountains here in Arizona and we are going to walk you through this beautiful hike today. I'm getting over back in here, like I said, so this is my back to the calls. So according to all trails, this is a 2.8 mile hike and it's kind of flat all the way here, maybe only 500 feet elevation gain, so this is supposed to be nice, it was raining yesterday and today we're probably expecting some rain here and for that we do have our rain jacket and we are all geared up. Yeah, we're going to have a lot of fun today. The section of the trail has two forks. The first one takes you to the Lost Goldmine Trail and then the second one takes you to the Hieroglyphic Trail and this is where we are headed. They're very scared. Why? They're petrified like those trees in the forest. The weather is very beautiful and look at all the Troias here and then the sky, very pretty. This is usually a very busy hike or very busy trail but today, since it's Christmas day and it's been raining for the last few days, it's a little bit busy, I mean we're still meeting people on the trail, it's kids-friendly, pets-friendly. Take it a little good way for it. And here we come to this fancy gate. It's built by the ancient peoples, the Ho-Ho-Kyans. Not sure, not sure. It's amazing how I read somewhere that birds would build nests. In empty holes like this but a little bit further up so that they are safer from predators. Okay, this is a beautiful trail really. Right now it is. Yeah, especially today because it's quiet, the rain and then the clouds and a little bit of a sunshine coming from there. But we'll see what happens when the sun goes down. When the sun goes down. The wild coyotes will come out. Oh! They're weird, when I'm not hiking, I'm thinking about hiking. When I'm hiking, I'm thinking about things I can do because I was hiking. Wow this sunset is really beautiful today. And according to Alex, we are a little bit over halfway under. This is GPS screw but it says we've done a while. Okay, very cool. A little bit of a scramble here. Just a moment where we have to step down. It's a little right at the end of the day here. Let me take the viewers and keep you guys safe. Let me. Thank you. There you go. Looks like we're going to see some predators. Very awesome. And when we read a little bit about the trail, it's indicated that there are a few pools over there that are feeding from the waterfall. And yeah, so we can see the pool. That's a good indicator. I thought to look up what makes them catch a glist. Still, I think you know, I speculated that something about organic material turned into rocks. So maybe like the rocks have some tree in them or plant life or maybe they carve them with. Yeah, I'm not quite sure. They even call it a higher glist of trail. So you can get a better view of the pool here. It's supposed to be up there. These are the ones that we saw the guy. Oh, very nice. Yeah, so very cool. I really can't help but notice, but there are a lot of times when we were hiking in the superstitions where I see like rocks that are like shaped like dudes or little like pictures of people. So these petroglyphs seem to indicate the, just the existence of this particular area as a hangout spot, I would say. I don't know. It seems like it's got water and other things that could have some other meaning to the hohokums. Like you said, they seem to have vanished around 1200 CE. Presuming CE is reasonably akin to AD. That being said, though, hohokum. People who vanished. And then here's where they were. So we can see little pictures. That looks like robots to me. And then there looks like some animals. So we're going to walk a little bit further there and probably use our headlamps to kind of show you what it looks like. Alright, so I'm using my headlamp here to shine some light since it's getting dark. And you can see some drawings of the animals. The hohokum were also famous by their well engineered irrigation systems here in the Arizona. Is that what these are, you think? What do you think these are drawings of? It could be. I'm not very sure. What do you guys think? What is this drawing here? What does it represent to you? And I think from what I read they also lived on corn and farming mainly. A little bit of hunting. Yeah, I honestly never heard about the hohokum Indians. But that was a cool little historic trail. Yeah, nice easy hike too, which is nice. Can you guys see my screen here? So this is what we're looking at. There's a little doodad with a head. I don't want to say what it looks like to me. That's what I want to say. It also reminds me of something from a video game. I think it's from Dark Souls where you have to go fight Manus. So that would be Dark Souls 1. Anyway, ready? So that's what we're looking at. Now take this out. So look at the back of my phone. So I got this night mode thing. So it's going to do this picture. Hold still, hold still, hold still. This is Alex's new Google phone. Google Pixel 4. So what it's going to do here is it's going to process the image. And if I press right here it'll show me what it thinks the image looks like. That is really cool. It's quite accurate. It is quite accurate. I was really impressed actually. Very nice though. Yeah. Hey, we're trying to come up with some techniques to show my face here in the video. But we are going to head back the same way we came in. It's pretty dark so we're not going to be able to show more. With that, you're trekking pals Habiba and Alex. And we'll see you soon on another adventure.