DAY ONE: Oh man — I’m completely obsessed with rock art. Whenever we are out hiking and exploring, coming upon a wall filled with ancient drawings, petroglyphs and pictographs, I imagine it’s something like coming face to face with your favorite celebrity. I get very excited, almost faint 🙂 Living in Kanab, UT, an area rich in ancient artifacts, artwork, dwellings, and graineries, my obsession has definitely skyrocketed. The cool thing is that I have a bunch of friends who are just as crazy as I am — and so between all of us, we are never at a loss for things to do on the weekends 🙂
I heard about some ruins and petrogyph sites in nearby Cane Beds, AZ. Cane Beds is about 40 miles away and very scenic, beautiful miles of mountains and open fields. Quintessential high desert. My friend, Jennifer, was posting some crazy amazing pictures on facebook of rock art in this area and so I was on a mission to see this stuff in person.
I love hand prints. Hand prints are common in ancient rock art.
Snakes? river? Not sure.
One of hundreds of glyphs
It’s fun trying to interpret the sites…. I call this one Freddy Kruger hands
Cool!
Reminds me of a Keith Haring drawing
Harry found this one! It’s pretty rad!
We didn’t find two of the sites I was hoping to get to — and it was getting late, the boys were cranky, and we needed to regroup. We headed home to consult Google Maps and Jennifer 🙂 (hey, Jennifer, if you are reading this —- U da’ BEST!)
