It’s been a little while since I posted a photo of a ruin on the blog, so here’s a photo I took this past weekend while exploring Natural Bridges National Monument. This small ruin is located near Kachina Bridge and there are some pretty cool pictographs and petroglyphs nearby as well. If you look closely inside the ruin, you will see small anthropomorphs painted inside.
When I revisited Horseshoe Canyon a few weeks ago, I visited this new pictograph panel near the Horseshoe Gallery that I had missed before. It’s obviously much newer than the other Barrier Canyon Style rock art found nearby, but it’s still a pretty cool panel.
Since today is Veteran’s Day I’m going to post a photo of a panel near Moab that I visited last year on the same holiday. The Intestine Man Panel is a tough one to get a good photograph of, but it’s also a very unique and amazing panel that contains a lot of fine detail. If you look very closely you can find many small birds that are painted at this site, besides all of the intricate details found within the Intestine Man figure.
Yes, I purposely posted this photo at 11:11am on 11/11/11
As we hiked up and down Snake Gulch in search of pictographs, it seems that we came across a lot of anthropomorphs that were painted in pairs. This is one of the larger and better preserved sets that we found.
>> Snake Gulch
Near the point in Snake Gulch where we turned around and headed back up canyon, we came across a large alcove that had the highest concentration of pictographs we had come across all day. Many of them were still in great condition and some of the largest ones we had seen that day. This is a look up into part of the large alcove with a few of the larger anthropomorphs.
>> Snake Gulch
