One of the ancient petroglyphs I stumbled across today after going up the wrong canyon looking for another, more famous panel. Apparently the Ancestral Puebloans had wingsuits 800 years ago.
I hiked over the ridge, across the valley and up the next ridge and found the original rock art panel I had intended to visit, called the Procession Panel. Then went over the top of that ridge and down the next valley, the one in the earlier post, and back to the truck.
I shot lots of good photos of rock art today, but these will be in a blog post and a gallery that I will link to later.
Hiked the wrong way to the "Procession Panel" pictographs and found some other cool rock art on the way. Now I'm gonna loop down this other canyon to the north because it looked too cool to ignore. From the top of Comb Ridge, looking east toward Butler Creek and the Abajo mountains in the distance.
I was feeling tired and it seemed like the rest of the afternoon/evening would be dull and cloudy, so I packed up, intending to start heading back. I've been on the road sleeping in my truck for a while, low on food and out of clean socks and shirts. But I thought, well, maybe there will be one last sun break for some dramatic afternoon light, so I grabbed my camera a couple of lenses and a tripod and headed back out…
View southeast from tonight's camp spot, Muley Point, overlooking the Goosenecks of the San Juan River. Monument valley in the distance. I tend to wake up before dawn, so I'm looking forward to the sunrise across this wild landscape. I was hoping to get here for the sunset, but missed it by about 15 minutes.
A few miles down from Bears Ears Pass and I have a tiny sliver of cell coverage. I found a beautiful camp in the piñon-juniper forest overlooking a vast panorama toward Monument Valley. The air is perfectly still and quiet. Had a simple dinner and a beer. I don't know or care what I am going to do tomorrow but it will be something awesome.
After weeks of river rafting, canyoneering, hiking and rock art exploring, I have a ton of pictures, but not enough bandwidth post any of them.
Going to be writing a whole bunch of short blog posts on my site and linking them here.