I’ve read some very interesting research into this site’s purported usage as a solstice observatory site. I personally haven’t had much luck with solstice observatories so I haven’t yet investigated this aspect of the site for myself. That doesn’t mean that the possibility isn’t intriguing! It is — especially since if true, it means that this site is pretty old.
Aiken Arch is located along a wash with numerous petroglyphs. After getting baked in the sun for a few miles it is a delight to duck into the sudden shade offered by the arch, which is all that’s left standing from a partly collapsed lava tube.
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Here is a rather nice part of the Counsel Rocks Archeological site. This is the hollow area underneath the boulder we looked at already in the “Approach” entry, the one with some rather inaccessible petroglyphs!