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    Gold Butte Region

    Our second day in southern Utah was spent in Nevada. :) Our group was very fashionably late to breakfast at Golden Corral in St. George where we met with a large group of geocachers for their annual event held the first weekend of March. We picked up some other people after breakfast and decided to head to the Gold Butte region in Nevada. We made a quick stop at Kenny's house to load some geocaches into our GPS units, but since I didn't have my laptop I couldn't load any maps. Due to the spur-of-the-moment nature of the trip I didn't have a chance to do any research on the area where we were headed and I had little idea what was in store. We had three Jeeps and nine people as we drove past Mesquite and into the desert.


    Driving along the Gold Butte Road



    Taking a break from the long drive



    Virgin Mountains panorama



    Gold Butte Road and Little Virgin Peak



    We turned south before reaching Whitney Pocket to look for a couple of geocaches. We DNFed on the first cache but found the second one which said something about petroglyphs in the name. After finding the cache we searched around for petroglyphs and found some that were so-so. I kept pressing on looking for more petroglyphs and was joined by Paul and Eric. We found some kinda interesting petroglyphs near a natural arch, then rounded a corner where I spotted the Falling Man petroglyph! It's a pretty well-known petroglyph, and I figured there would be more great rock art nearby. We ended up hiking for almost two hours and found hundreds of petroglyphs. It was a great surprise that none of us were expecting!


    Climbing up a small sandstone peak west of Whitney Pocket



    Traci and Eric at the parked Jeeps



    Petroglyphs



    One of a very few pictographs in the area



    Deer(?) petroglyph



    Karin on the rocks



    Following a trail to more rock art



    Dark clouds over the Virgin Mountains



    Petroglyph and a natural arch



    Bosley in the arch



    Falling Man



    Eric through an arch



    Little Falling Man



    Cliffs with a large concentration of petroglyphs



    Petroglyphs



    Mmm, bacon



    Petroglyphs



    Petroglyphs



    Petroglyphs



    Petroglyphs



    Bosley drinking from a small pothole



    Petroglyphs



    Eric and Paul hiking and looking for more rock art



    Painted petroglyphs



    Back at the Jeeps everyone was waiting for us when we returned. Sherie had found a strange, fuzzy red bug that I found out later was a Red Velvet Mite (we were all a little freaked out by it, not knowing whether it was poisonous). We drove on to Whitney Pocket and visited a dam built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. From there it wasn't far to the Devil's Throat sinkhole. The sinkhole was fascinating but there wasn't much to see there beyond the five minutes it took to walk around it and take in the sights.


    Walking back to the Jeeps



    Red Spider Mite



    The Jeeps parked at Whitney Pocket



    The approach to a CCC-built dam



    Karin on top of the dam



    Chris on the large dam and Karin in the distance on a smaller, older dam



    Chris apparently warming his hands by the fires of hell at Devil's Throat sinkhole



    Next we drove down Mud Wash to another petroglyph panel. We tried getting to Devil's Fire (aka Little Finland) before sunset but we didn't make it. The sun dropped below the horizon while we were finding a geocache called Little Finland, but none of us knew the actual Devil's Fire location was almost a mile away. I have a feeling we'll all be back to experience it another time. We drove back in the dark and ate a late dinner at the Pasta Factory in St. George before retiring to Hurricane for a good night's sleep after a long day.


    Mud Wash petroglyphs



    I loved this high, lone lizard petroglyph



    Small arches near Mud Wash



    Near Mud Wash with Bitter Ridge in the distance



    View up Mud Wash toward Whitney Ridge



    Sandstone funkiness near Devil's Fire



    Clouds after sunset





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    Strong work Dennis! Love the falling man and the spider mite.

    My dream of posting more TR's than you in 2014 has already been dashed...

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    Well done, Dennis

    Hope you didn't miss "Devils Fire".

    It's incredible.
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    Nice!

    Somewhere along that Gold Butte road is the spare tire to my 5th wheel toy hauler and the assembly for the rear landing/leveling legs!

    When I was there last and placed "Brutes Petro Park" near Falling man, all that stuff fell of the underside of my TH!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slot Machine View Post
    My dream of posting more TR's than you in 2014 has already been dashed...
    I've got three more in the pipeline from this past weekend! :D

    Quote Originally Posted by oldno7 View Post
    Hope you didn't miss "Devils Fire".

    It's incredible.
    Yeah, I totally missed it. None of us knew exactly where it was and the sun went down before we could find it. It's on the list for next year.

    Quote Originally Posted by BruteForce View Post
    Somewhere along that Gold Butte road is the spare tire to my 5th wheel toy hauler and the assembly for the rear landing/leveling legs!

    When I was there last and placed "Brutes Petro Park" near Falling man, all that stuff fell of the underside of my TH!
    Hahah, I don't remember seeing it, though I'm sure somebody probably picked it up since then. I'm glad you placed that geocache there, since that's the only reason we stopped there and began looking for rock art.
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