Monthly Archives: May 2021

“Checkerboard” Petroglyphs

Today’s site is another lesson in the “Once you’ve looked at all the obvious petroglyphs or pictographs, start looking around for the hidden ones!” track. There’s a small but well-remembered list of sites where I’ve done the hard work of finding the site and taking pictures, only to learn later that “But wait! There’s more!” For at least one of those sites I know I missed a large panel of petroglyphs. Walked right by it, basically, and didn’t see it. I haven’t been back because it is one of those “many miles” sites, and the miles weren’t easy, either!

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“One more for the road” Pictographs

We’re on the prowl in piles of granite we haven’t visited before, peering in under overhangs and outcroppings, scrambling up to interesting-looking shelters, and walking down washes with our eyes on the ground, looking for anything interesting on the ground. Since we know that sometimes a shelter is hidden around the back of a boulder and you won’t know if you don’t go look, every boulder we pass gets a good circling. Good thing it is a cool, breezy spring morning, so making slow progress through the desert is no problem at all!

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