Today we moved from Bryce Canyon City to Moab, Utah. The most surprising part of the drive was passing the boyhood home of Butch Cassidy. We got a quick photo through the driver’s window.
Butch Cassidy’s boyhood home in Circleville, Utah
We met up with Jane’s brother Jon and sister-in-law Nancy to visit the Utah Highway 279 Rock Art Site near Moab. Here Native Americans from the Archaic (3,000-8,000 years ago ) and Fremont (700-1500 years ago) periods both etched designs into desert varnish, a combination of clay minerals, manganese, and/or iron, that coats the rock face.
Desert varnish on the rock wall near the petroglyphs.Pictograph representations can include sacred symbols, migration routes, fertility figures, hunting magic, ceremonies or cosmic events as well as humans and animals. The meaning of many of the abstract symbols is unknown.The bighorn sheep are older than the large bear. Three human figures hold arrows touching the animal.Maybe this represents a ceremonial dance.Bighorn sheepThe area is used for rock climbing practice.Rock formations and a bend in the Colorado River show stunning vistas aren’t limited to national parks.The face of this rock is in the geologic process of splitting.
August 4, 2022 Vermont’s oldest geocache was closer to our campground near Albany, New York than our campground near Montpelier, Vermont so we treated it separately from other Vermont geocaches. Besides, it was harder to Read more…
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Susan · May 8, 2021 at 2:13 pm
ACCKKKK I hate seeing people try to etch their names in archeology treasures. So many ignorant self absorbed people!!!! But otherwise great photos