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Overwrite

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Overwrite

I’ve been looking for this panel for over a year and finally managed to find it over the Thanksgiving weekend. It took me three separate trips to find it, so I guess the third time’s the charm! I find it interesting that the petroglyph on the right is placed right over a larger pictograph which makes it really stand out. The texture on the ceiling of this overhang is just amazing, and I managed to visit this site at the right time of the day since there was some nice reflected light bouncing around.

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Rain Panel

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Rain Panel

When I first visited this pictograph panel last year the light and shadows were pretty bad, so I didn’t end up with any decent photos. This time I made sure to stick around in the late afternoon for a better shot in the warm light.

Dinosaur Track Pictograph

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Dinosaur Track Pictograph

Earlier this month I set out to find this particular pictograph in the – Escalante National Monument that has intrigued me for quite a while. As far as I know, this may be the only pictograph depicting a ! There is a very impressive dinosaur trackway located right near these . I wonder what kind of myths the Native Americans had about the tracks found at this site, especially since some of them appear to head right off the edge of a 1,000+ foot cliff?

Here are a couple of the tracks found at the site:

Tracks Over the Edge

Dino Print Size

Three Warriors

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Three Warriors

We sure did see a lot of ‘faces’ last weekend in . Besides the and panels, we also found the . While there may have been in this panel at one point in time, eight of them are really still visible. The three figures in the photo above were the three rightmost faces in the panel. Unfortunately, calcite has been leaching from the sandstone that these were painted on, so much of it has been covered in the white substance, making it difficult to photograph. I did my best to bring out the details in this photo.

Nine Faces

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Nine Faces

Besides visiting the last weekend, we also managed to find the . These ghostly figures are all white and not as colorful, but there are at least nine of them that are still visible!

High Five Panel

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High Five Panel

I first noticed this high pictograph panel in May when I backpacked to Spring in . Since I didn’t have my long lens on that trip (too much weight), I couldn’t get a decent photo of the panel. Since I was able to drive to this last weekend I was able to get a closer photo of this very interesting panel. I took this photo just after sunrise when the early morning light was striking it directly for only a few moments.

Besides the very vivid reverse handprints and white zig-zag snakes, there is also an interesting large circular figure and two half circles that seem to have faded. Below those are a large white snake that is also pretty faded. The most interesting aspect of these is that they are painted very high up on a cliff with no current access to reach them…and we did try to find a way.

Six of Thirteen

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Six of Thirteen

I just got back from a very humid weekend spent exploring in the of . I’ve been trying to get back into for the last two years but the road has been washed out and closed for that long. When I received word a few weeks ago that the road had finally been reopened, I wasted no time and planned a trip out there…who knows when the next storm will close the road again? One of the main reasons to get back into was so that I could finally visit the famous pictograph panel. This photo shows six of the , although you can really only see ten of the faces to begin with.

I’ll be posting more photos from this trip over the next week or two, so keep watching for them.

Wavy Arms Guy

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Wavy Arms Guy

A fun little pictograph that I visited on a hike during a snowstorm in the . Luckily it was under a large overhang where I could get out of the snow and take a few photos.

Red Bear Panel in Black & White

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Red Bear Panel in Black & White

Here’s a large panel of red found on known as the Red Panel. When I first came across this impressive panel, I was surprised as just how large the in the middle was. This photo doesn’t do it’s size justice. While are pretty common around Western Colorado and the area, I can’t recall seeing any other bear imagery on before?

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Wall of Spirits

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Wall of Spirits

Ancient ghostly figures painted on a wall overlook in the .

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Bighorn Ruins

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Bighorn Ruins

Last weekend I probably took my last trip to the desert for a little while until things cool down a bit again. While I was out exploring some remote canyons of I visited these interesting with a few of bighorn sheep nearby.

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Through the Tree

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Through the Tree

This is one of my all-time favorite pictograph panels, and one of the reasons I originally became interested in in the first place. When I took this photo I actually stuck my camera into a nearby tree to frame the with the out-of-focus branches. It took me a few tries to get something that I liked since I couldn’t use the viewfinder! I’m happy with the result :)

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Remnant Ruin

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Remnant Ruin

Here’s an interesting ruin with the remnants of a pictograph panel above that I visited this last weekend as I explored more of . Not shown in this photo are two other small parts of the pictograph panel to the right that still remain on the wall. That could mean it was possible that the pictograph panel above this site was much larger than the remaining sections. I wonder what it looked like when it was still fully intact?

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Cracked Shield

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Cracked Shield

While searching a small and almost inaccessible canyon in the of a few weeks ago, I came across this bright white pictograph that really stood out and was well-preserved. I’ve not run across another design like this before. I really like how the crack in the sandstone below the pictograph kind of leads right up to it.

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Pictographs & Stars

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Pictographs & Stars

When I was camped at Spring in over Memorial Day weekend, I took the opportunity to take a few shots of the nice pictograph panel found here when it got dark enough out.

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