The
bad news of our visit was that it was cold and windy. The good news was the
surreal beauty of the setting with these varnished rocks set on a small hill on
the plains with a mountain background. It really is in the middle of nowhere.
The
site has over 21,000 recorded petroglyphs (wow!) made from 1000-1400 CE. We’ve seen a
lot of petroglyphs before but many of these seemed more ornate or complicated.This bighorn sheep has 3 arrows piercing it's body.
Or
some seemed just fanciful and would fit on a cartoon.
Visitors
are allowed to crawl over the rocks on or off the path. We’ve been to sites
that required binoculars to see the petroglyphs, so this was nice to be up
close and personal. A bald eagle on the left?
Of
course, no one really knows what the purpose of these glyphs really is or what
some of them are supposed to show. I
think this was is a hand grabbing a snake. BTW, there are all kinds of warnings
about snakes being among the rocks but given the cold temperatures we didn’t
see any.
In
honor of Christmas, I think this is a reindeer.
And
this is someone trimming a Christmas tree.
On
the way back to the campground we had to stop at the world’s largest pistachio
and buy some nuts.
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