No more internet and officially moved out of our little cabin and into a house... Lots of room but not as cozy. Suz and Max are sitll here but Max will be leaving tomorrow I believe.
Never gave an account of Snake Gulch, the hike we did two weeks ago. Tons of petroglyphs and pictographs. Really cool... And they kept getting cooler as we went along. Some were almost 50 ft high on the cliff.
On right... Rooster man! I believe the bird head symbol either represents an eagle or a katchina... either way that was the only one that looked like that and I thought it was neat.
Jesse commented that these guys looked like they were carrying purses or something... upon further research we realized they might actually be heads....
This one is harder to see but you can kind of make out what looks like blood streaming out of the "heads". A rockart book said these are symbols of head hunters... Didn't know the basketweavers were keen on hunting people... interesting.
This past weekend we took Suzie and Max into the canyon. Me suz and max at the trailhead on left. Jesse was still working so we headed down without him. Explored the cave in the Redwall which was cool... couldn't help thinking of The Descent and the roof caving in on me. A bit scary.
Stayed over night at Roaring Springs bunkhouse and continued down the North Kaibab trail to Ribbon Falls in the morning.
Made it to Upper Ribbon falls (picture on right) just a mile or so past the turnoff for Ribbon. Theres also an Upper Upper Ribbon falls but its pretty far up the canyon... maybe another time.
Climbed around and had a snack.. then headed back down to Ribbon Falls.
View from where we had lunch... right behind the falls. A bit noisy but quite nice.
Back to Roaring springs for dinner and then Jess and I hiked out around 4:30 am on Monday... had to get back to work.... these two day weekends are rough.
Well your still getting things done and going places in two days. You just got really spoiled this summer.
ReplyDeleteThe Snake Gulch rock art is very awesome!
Bummer not having any internet.
Doesn't look like it's snowed yet. ;)
Que maravilloso!! Y quien dibujo los munequitos??
ReplyDeleteMe da mucha alegria que la estan pasando bien y difrutando el tiempo con tu mejor amiga. Un poco frio pues te abrigas bien y puedes correr el canyon entero, por lo menos no estas sudando.
El sitio es bello! con razon que no quieres volver, tengo tantas gans de verte para qu me cuentes de todo. Un abrazo y un beso grande,
para mi hija que quiero con toda mi alma