2020 Fall Travels Part 2

 Nine Mile Canyon is southeast of Price, UT.  It is, of course, not nine miles long.  It is more than 40 miles long and is called the longest art gallery in the world because the walls of the canyon contain so many rock art panels.  Most of the panels were created by the Fremont People who inhabited the area from about 1 AD to 1300.  I have not seen  an estimate of the number of panels, but there are many hundreds of them.  Here are just a few.

 Balloon Man Panel

Big Bison Panel

Pregnant Bison Panel

The Great Hunt Panel.  Perhaps the most famous rock art panel in North America.  Notice the rams on the top row with ewes on the bottom three rows.  Each of the ewes has a lamb behind it.

A side canyon

The Owl Panel

This remarkable panel, named The Coyote Placing the Stars, is placed so high up on the canyon wall that it can not be seen with the naked eye.  Notice that the dots continue from the upper left to the lower right.

A weird man on the left

A balanced rock with a tree growing on the top

If you are looking for a retirement fixer-upper, this place might do.

It comes with farm implements

In other canyons near Price, UT

A rare pictograph

The apply named 45 Degree Panel.  Notice, in the center, a man with a basket on his back.

Three shamans holding  hands

In the center, a square man holding a rainbow in one hand and a sheep in the other.  Below him, a sheep in a fence. Sheep appear so many times in these panels because they hunted wild sheep for food, not because they domesticated them.

I may have mentioned we like big rocks.

The road to Range Creek Canyon,  great fun. You may have to look closely to see it.

Fall colors in Utah.  Our second month of fall

We spent a month in Price, UT and then slowly made our way south.  We stopped for a few days near Page, AZ.

We are now in our winter quarters in Surprise, AZ,  which is on the northwest corner of the greater Phoenix area.  We will probably be here until next spring.  A Merry Christmas to you all.