Pictograph panel - Temple Mt.
Unique, interesting and unfotunately way too accessible pictographs, most have been vandalized. Temple Mountain pictograph panel.
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Road Trip - Utah April 17th - 24th, 2010: My wife and I headed for
Southern Utah, just before midnight on Friday the 16th of April (after
she got off work at her part time job). We drove straight through to
Southern Utah, to take advantage of the good weather forecast early on
in our trip. Storms were forecast for later in the trip and in fact we
got a pretty good taste of same on Wednesday the 21st.
Here in outline form are the places we visited and hiked:
Saturday 4.17.2010
> Rochester Rock Art Panel near Emery, Utah
> The Moore cutoff road
> Sinbad’s head pictograph panel (we camped under a pinon pine near
here)
Sunday 4.18.2010
> Black Dragon Canyon rock art panel (after first taking the wrong
turn and doing some interesting four wheel drive travel way up the San
Rafael River). Short hike.
> Pictograph Canyon pictographs. Short but interesting hike.
> Drive Hanksville, Torrey, Boulder, to Escalante (check into
motel)
Monday 4.19.2010
> Drive out the Hole In The Rock Road. Visit Devil’s Garden and
Metate Arch.
> Drive to Dry Fork of Coyote Gulch. Hike down to Peek-a-boo and
Spooky slot canyons. I hiked the loop up Peek-a-boo and down Spooky
while my wife hiked with another lady hiker up Dry Fork and then down
to the bottom of Spooky.
Tuesday 4.20.2010
> Hike Lower Calf Creek Falls (my third hike here and my wife’s
second) and scramble up to two sets of pictograph panels.
Wednesday 4.21.2010
> Drive the Burr Trail road from Boulder to Notom (my fourth time
on this scenic route and my wife’s second). Photograph in Long Canyon
and along Waterpocket Fold. Race a rain storm north on the dirt
(rapidly turning to mud) portion of this route.
> Hike to the Wild Horse twin caves across the slickrock. Hit with
hailstorm as we arrived and watched a “mud storm” (thunderstorm
falling through a dust storm), travel across to the east of us. The
wind caught up with us at Goblin Valley State Park.
> Revisit the pictographs on Temple Mountain.
> Visit Goblin Valley State Park (my second visit and my wife’s
first). Howling winds.
Thursday 4.22.2010
> Drive from Hanksville (we had a motel room there) to South Mule
Canyon.
> Hike two miles up South Mule Canyon photographing “house on fire”
ruins along the way.
> Check with Kane Ranger Station. Decide to skip a hike down Kane
Gulch (too much water and mud on route).
> Take short, but beautiful hike to Yellow House ruins.
> Drive Valley of the gods loop from west to east.
> Drive up through Bluff to Monticello, Utah (cold winds). Stay in
motel there.
Friday 4.23.2010
> Drive Monticello, Price, Salt Lake City, Wendover, Wells, Jackpot
(where my wife got to spend a couple of hours at the penny slot
investment center at Cactus Pete casino - while I slept in the truck
canopy bed and read). Drive through the night through Boise, Baker
City, Pendleton, and on to our home in Eastern Washington.
Saturday 2.14. 2010
> Arrived home at 5:30 am.
Note:
As long planned (discussions started back in November of 2009): we met
a couple, also from Eastern Washington in Escalante on Monday night.
These nice friends, whom we met through flickr, joined us on all the
hikes and drives we took on Tuesday and Wednesday, as well as the
South Mule Canyon hike on Thursday morning.
We thoroughly enjoyed our time with Jason and Lusha. Their company added greatly to the fun we had on this trip. We took different routes down to Escalante as well as back home, so we could all customize a portion of this road trip to fit our individual “must see/must do” priorities. A good time was had by all.
Visit Fly Flipper’s flickr photo stream to see their photographs from this road trip: www.flickr.com/photos/lushaevans/sets/72157623754464683/
My wife and I visited Southern Utah and Western Colorado at exactly the same time of the year in 2009. Here are three sets of photographs from that trip, which includes a wonderful backpacking trip into Coyote Gulch, in the Escalante River Canyon Country:
Capitol Reef, Red Canyon, Burr Trail April of 2009:
www.flickr.com/photos/12150532@N04/sets/72157617350799426/
Coyote Gulch backpacking trip April of 2009:
www.flickr.com/photos/12150532@N04/sets/72157617350433766/
McInnis Canyon/Rattlesnake Canyon Arches trip April of 2009:
www.flickr.com/photos/12150532@N04/sets/72157617259181215/
There is an old saying that “firewood” warms you twice. Once when you cut it and the second time when you burn it. I feel the same way about a road trip or a hike. I enjoy it three times: Planning for it; doing it; and sharing the memories with others afterwards
Comments and faves
Desert.Sage {:::Ecliptic!!:::} (26 months ago | reply)
So beautiful!
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pat-trick (26 months ago | reply)
These are amazing. This one isof pretty good size as I remember. Looks like a very rewarding trip.
oldmantravels (26 months ago | reply)
Thanks Desert Sage and you care correct Patrick. These pictographs are pretty much "life size". I found that out when I hiked up and across the ledge and stood before them. OMT
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