Nine Mile Canyon, Round Two

I returned to Nine Mile Canyon on Sunday--the second trip in as many weeks--to find some rock art I'd missed the previous weekend. I found the Owl Panel this time. It turns out last time I was one canyon too far over. I was surprised by how many other petroglyphs were in the same area as the Owl Panel, and I spent a good chunk of time in the area.


Owl Panel overview
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K...0/IMG_4250.JPG


Main owl figure
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-p...0/IMG_4252.JPG


Whoa, dude, put that thing away!
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-p...0/IMG_4264.JPG


Large lady
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-t...0/IMG_4266.JPG


Small owl
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-K...0/IMG_4269.JPG


Petroglyphs next to the Owl Panel
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-b...0/IMG_4277.JPG


A family of legless sheep(?)
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-M...0/IMG_4292.JPG


Sparsely-pecked sheep
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B...0/IMG_4306.JPG


This is a great figure, down-canyon from the Own Panel and high on a cliff
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-s...0/IMG_4317.JPG


Another odd leashed(?) sheep, this time with the leash held by a deer
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_...0/IMG_4333.JPG


Sheep (notice the forked tongue(?) on the deer)
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-4...0/IMG_4334.JPG


Deer
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-W...0/IMG_4335.JPG


Next I stopped at the Echo Site to look for a petroglyph panel that I had somehow not seen earlier. It turned out to be ridiculously obvious and I'm still not sure how I failed to see it before.


A panel at the Echo Site that I missed last time
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8...0/IMG_4349.JPG


Sheep and faintly-visible hunter with bow
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-L...0/IMG_4356.JPG


I continued toward Cottonwood Canyon and stopped at a few random sites along the way. It began raining when I got to the parking spot for the Great Hunt Panel, so I jogged down the new (since I was last there) gravel path to the rock art panel, snapped two photos, then hurried back to the Jeep.


Horned guy with a buffalo and sheep
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-h...0/IMG_4376.JPG


Red and white pictographs
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-b...0/IMG_4391.JPG


White dots
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-n...0/IMG_4395.JPG


White pictographs
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-7...0/IMG_4403.JPG


Great Hunt Panel
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n...0/IMG_4406.JPG


Pictographs near the Great Hunt
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-h...0/IMG_4408.JPG


I drove to near the end of the road along Nine Mile Canyon and saw a couple of petroglyph panels near the road, plus several way up high that will have to wait until better weather. The rain wasn't letting up so I turned around and headed for home. As I ascended the canyon the rain turned to snow, and I ran hail and heavy rain on the way back to Price.


Spiral petroglyphs
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6...0/IMG_4416.JPG


Spiral and lines
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j...0/IMG_4417.JPG


Heavy rain in Nine Mile Canyon
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-L...0/IMG_4420.JPG


Snow at the divide between Nine Mile Creek and Soldier Creek
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M...0/IMG_4431.JPG




Full photo gallery: https://picasaweb.google.com/Dennis....CanyonRoundTwo