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11-01-2010, 07:12 PM #1
Horseshoe Canyon Pictographs
Saturday, October 30, 2010
On Saturday morning my friend Jackson and I headed to Green River and then south through the San Rafael Desert to the trailhead for Horseshoe Canyon. I have wanted to hike this canyon for a while to check out all of the pictographs, so I was excited to finally be there. The hike turned out to be just under 8 miles long after all of the side trips we took, and the weather was just about perfect. Here's some photos of the pictographs we checked out along the way.
Our first stop was at the High Gallery
Then we stopped at the Horseshoe Gallery
Up next was the Alcove Gallery which was in a huge alcove. Unfortunately these pictographs were either worn off pretty good or vandalized.
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11-01-2010 07:12 PM # ADS
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11-01-2010, 07:13 PM #2
Lastly we stopped and spent quite a bit of time at the Great Gallery
Man & Dog?
The Holy Ghost
An impressive panel
Some fall colors framing the Holy Ghost
Nice details still visible
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11-01-2010, 07:13 PM #3
...and here's a few non-pictograph photos I took along the way.
Back-lit Cottonwood
Visitor
Along the canyon bottom
Jackson playing with his new lens
Colorful cottonwoods
View back down into Horseshoe Canyon as we climbed back out and made our way to the Jeep again.
After a nice hike we headed back to Green River for some dinner at Ray's Tavern before heading home. As we reached Green River some storms started rolling it. It was perfect timing!
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11-01-2010, 07:32 PM #4
Nice trip report!
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11-01-2010, 08:18 PM #5
Very nice - a beautiful, unforgettable place, that.
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11-02-2010, 05:44 AM #6
Nice TR, I've been there twice and it is a beautiful place.
WinQuoting my best friend, Bob McNally, after a bad boating trip: "Nature scares me!"
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11-02-2010, 09:31 AM #7
Excellent, Randy! Thanks for posting the photos; I've been wanting to go to Horseshoe ever since I read a bit about it on a Canyonlands map, as I love rock art. Now, I definitely need to go.
It's awesome how the cottonwoods in the lower canyons are in their full-on-disco color now, isn't it? Saw lots of that around Moab last week. Nice to spread the fall color out over a couple of months before "stick season" begins.Sonya
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11-02-2010, 01:44 PM #8
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11-03-2010, 08:32 AM #9
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11-03-2010, 05:36 PM #10
Oh, that is TOTALLY cool! I'd read that they were life-sized, but you really can't tell from photos unless there's an actual peep there for scale.
What treasures - I'm glad no one has defaced these. I get so pissed when I see that or other vandalism/theft to archeological sites. People who do that sort of thing totally suck .Sonya
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11-03-2010, 06:16 PM #11
Here's another, more panoramic, view of the Great Panel. Keep in mind the photo of Ice in front of the Holy Ghost picto, and that's the small group on the left side. The place is huge:
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11-03-2010, 06:22 PM #12
thought everyone would find this interesting. this is about the archeology of horseshoe canyon.
http://www.nps.gov/cany/planyourvisi...seshoebook.pdf
btw, those figures are larger than life size. shane is well in front so it makes them look smaller.But if I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.
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11-03-2010, 06:56 PM #13
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11-03-2010, 08:44 PM #14
+1
I always assumed most prehistoric rock art was either Fremont or Anasazi in this region; how fascinating to find out it was done by Archaic peoples thousands of years earlier. I'll have to read the article about the canine figures later...
Thanks everyone for the pics and info, and of course Randy, who started the threadSonya
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11-05-2010, 05:45 AM #15
I was watching a show on History Channel last night on early visitors from other worlds and at least twice they showed the panels in Horseshoe Canyon. The show is "Ancient Aliens", as you'd expect a lot of speculation and very few facts.
Thanks for the link.
WinQuoting my best friend, Bob McNally, after a bad boating trip: "Nature scares me!"
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11-05-2010, 08:45 AM #16
That's a fun show to watch if you want to start thinking outside the box. It helps if you have read the book Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Daniken.
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11-05-2010, 09:35 AM #17
Geez, I think I read that book about 40 years ago! There is also the counter to it called "Crash Go the Chariots" by Wilson. I have a customer who is really into the alien thing, he even went to Mexico to meet with a Mayan priest concerning 2012. He loves all the pictures I send him of the ancient art.
One of my favorites from Horseshoe has the "ghost" figure.
Win
Quoting my best friend, Bob McNally, after a bad boating trip: "Nature scares me!"
Utah photos: www.winpics.fototime.com
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11-05-2010, 11:40 AM #18
Awesome! I have yet to make this hike, but it looks amazing. It's nice to see a couple pics of the canyon itself, too.
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