We had a couple days after Gil finished a major project for The Sculpture Studio and chose to decompress in Bluff, Utah, one of our favorite destinations. On the recommendation of our new friends Gus and Sandra, we ventured along Comb Ridge and did some hiking into the canyons. The driving was simpler than expected--no four-wheel drive necessary, but the hiking at a mile-high for us flat-landers was more strenuous than anticipated. But our efforts were greatly rewarded.
The Procession Panel is so named as there is a line-up of 179 hunters and their quarry. No, we didn't count them, but someone had. The Wolfman Panel has some anthropomorphs and bird figures and two abstracts that remind us of toilet seats. Not thinking they had such things 900+ years ago, but it's just our interpretation.
We found some habitations in various states and there have been people making museum collections of pottery and such. Selections from our photographing this area, four or five times over, will be presented at the Desert Foothills Chapter of the Arizona Archeological Society's May 2012 meeting. For information on the chapter, visit: azarchsoc.org/DesertFoothills
