Photos, videos and docs of Don Barrett (aka DBs travels), with the keywords: "petroglyphs"

Parowan Gap petroglyphs (1812)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 05:36:18 +0000

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Plaque describing the Parowan Gap petroglyphs. Unlike the newer plaques that have all been vandalized, this plaque was installed quite some time ago and is well embedded.

Parowan Gap petroglyphs (1803)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 05:35:45 +0000

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Petroglphys at Parowan Gap. When I fist visited these in 2009 I was amazed at the number and extensiveness of the petroglyphs. On this January visit it was too cold to really spend time marveling at them.

Parowan Gap petroglyphs (1802)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 05:34:46 +0000

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Parowan Gap petroglyphs vandalism (1800)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 05:33:56 +0000

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Every single descriptive plaque at the site had been destroyed.

Parowan Gap petroglyphs (1805)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 05:33:29 +0000

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Looking east through the Parowan Gap. At some point since I was there in 2009, the BLM has created a parking area, walkways, fencing, and signage which would, ideally, make the area much more accessible and informative. Unfortunately all of the plaques put up by the BLM have been destroyed (see adjacent picture).

Sego Canyon Rock Art Site, UT (1791b)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:07:25 +0000

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Closely cropped version of adjacent picture providing some additional detail of the pictrographs. Due to being able only to view them from the road, no more detail is possible.

Sego Canyon Rock Art Site and railroad, UT (1790)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:06:54 +0000

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Cutting very close to the Barrier Canyon pictographs are the remains of a railroad. The railroad had transported coal from the Sego mining area which is further up the canyon. Per various websites the abandoned town of Sego is well worth a visit. Unfortunately we were running short of time and thus did not go up there.

Sego Canyon railroad, UT (1783)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:06:13 +0000

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Sego Canyon Rock Art Site, UT (1784)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:05:50 +0000

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Even more detailed view of the Barrier Canyon figures. I could definitely see how these would lead to suspicions that aliens from another planet had visited earth -- or that the painters were under the influence of very powerful hallucinogens!

Sego Canyon Rock Art Site, UT (1781)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:05:29 +0000

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More detailed view of the Barrier Canyon figures.

Sego Canyon Rock Art Site, UT (1782)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:05:03 +0000

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Barrier Canyon rock art, paintings of very eerie or ghostly/ghastly appearing figures with eyeholes instead of eyes and horns. I've seen pictures of such, but never had actually seen them -- in a remote and little visited canyon discovered almost by accident.

Sego Canyon Rock Art Site, UT (1785)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:04:34 +0000

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Plaque describing what is labeled as "Barrier Canyon" rock art, considered (and I agree) to be some of the most spectacular.

Sego Canyon Rock Art Site, UT (1779)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:43:20 +0000

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Evident, but still barely visible due to the light, are a series of red-painted figures at the top of the set that predate the Fremont era petroglyphs (more visible in Lightbox). Per the plaque (see nearby), the barely visible trapezoidal figures stretching across below the painted figures are Fremont era figures that predate the more detailed and visible trapezoidal bodies and sheep, which are from a later Fremont era. No mention is made on the plaque of the later, marring, etchings by non-Native Americans.

Sego Canyon Rock Art Site, UT (1777)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:42:47 +0000

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Due to the angle of the light, I initially thought this was only petroglyphs with some discoloration of the rock (see adjacent picture).

Sego Canyon Rock Art Site, UT (1778)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:42:23 +0000

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There were additional viewing areas north of the parking area that I almost missed because the trails were overgrown. The first, labeled as Fremont era (600 to 1250 AD) in this plaque, actually contains much older pictographs.

Sego Canyon Rock Art Site, UT (1788)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:41:57 +0000

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A closeup of the art nearest the parking area, with quite a bit of evidence of markings left by non-Native Americans marring the view.

Sego Canyon Rock Art Site, UT (1787)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:41:09 +0000

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The initial evidence, from a viewpoint next to the parking area, did not look promising -- there appeared to be only a small amount of petroglyphs and pictographs.

Sego Canyon Rock Art Site, UT (1775)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:40:40 +0000

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An excellent plaque, from BLM at the parking area, describing the petroglyphs (chiseled) and pictographs (painted) found in the canyon.

Sego Canyon Rock Art Site, UT (1789)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:39:58 +0000

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It was simply by glancing at the map of eastern Utah that I happened to see, in very small print, "Sego Canyon Rock Art Site" marked as just a little east of where I was going to be coming out to I-70 when leaving Moab. Now that I've seen it, I'm hesitant about posting pictures since it is one of the most astounding, but little visited, groups of Native American rock art that I've ever seen. Hopefully posting these few pictures will not have an effect on the fact that it appears to be seldom visited.

Moab, UT petroglyphs (1759)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 05:11:55 +0000

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Colorado river on the right, petroglyphs on the left.