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15 miles west of Blanding, at about 8000 feet near the Bear's Ears looking southeast towards the 4 Corners area with Texas Canyon right behind the Jeep. The canyon is about 2000 feet deep here. |
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Petroglyphs just south of Highway 95 west of Blanding at the Cave Tower Anasazi ruin site. This rock art panel seems to depict a hunting scene, possibly by the nearby canyon with the two sets of jagged lines (maybe) representing the canyon. At the bottom is a hunter with a dead sheep since he is dragging it and it is upside down. At the top and harder to see is a sheep that has an atlatl spear in it with a dog behind it and two hunters, maybe a male and female. There is also another dog at the upper left and a couple more sheep in the scene. |
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Nancy and Jon sitting by one of the 800 year old ruins at Cave Tower ruin site. This and the next photo are similar, but this one shows how small a space the ancients had around their homes. They lived in these places, folks -- and just think about the difficulties they'd face when they'd get up in the middle of the night to go potty (for instance). One mis-step and it's good-bye Uncle Thug. |
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And a close-up of Nancy and Jon in some ruins that are very close to Blanding in a side canyon off of West Water Canyon. |
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A small slot canyon near the trail to a large group of ruins on a narrow ledge high above a canyon west of Blanding. |
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On the trail to the ruins just past the slot canyon. |
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Nancy with Jon behind her decending down the steep slope to the ledge the ruins are located on. |
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Nancy and Jon in the unrestored Kiva at the ruins. |
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One set of buildings at the ruins with Nancy in the far background above the cliff. |
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These last photos are from a ruins at an "undisclosed location". Unfortunately, the best (and only) way to preserve them is to keep their location quiet. It would take only a couple irresponsible visitors to trash these irreplaceable treasures. |