More Petroglyphs? Yes, Please!

The next morning, I decided to take the hike to the other petroglyph site that Lyn, the camp host told me about. “Just take the path too the right, and follow along the base of the hill and the fence. Go through the gate and keep going.”

That little line of rocks is the beginning of the trail. I walked toward where the gate was supposed to be.

I walked along the barbed wire fence until I came face-to-face with more barbed wire. For the uninitiated, this is a gate.

You lift the latch.

Drop the gate and walk through.

Then, be sure to latch it up again.

Sometimes the trail was a little hard to see. In some places, there were rocks showing the way. In other places, there were just footprints in the dirt.

But, human trails were easy to distinguish from the animal trails.

I wasn’t too certain that I was heading in the right direction, but I finally found a glyph.

It wasn’t an outstanding glyph, but at least I knew I was on the right path. The next glyph I found was amazing!

After that, I spotted them one after another.

I loved this one. It reminded me of a Picasso work of art. I wonder what the creator intended?

There were more circles.

A handprint. A universal way of leaving one’s mark from the caves at Lascaux and Chauvet in France around 30,000 years ago to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

Could this have been a mountain lion’s paw?

Another circle motif.

I like to think of this as a symbol for wind. There certainly is enough of it here in the desert

What a nice collection of glyphs!

A fish?

This looks like a video game controller to me.

This boulder had them on just about every surface.  I was having so much fun exploring and seeing what I could find. Of course, I know I wasn’t really discovering them. Countless people before me had been there, as well as many cows.

I love this little laughing animal.

This one looks like a bear claw.

A lizard.

Another lizard, claw and more circles.

This one looks like a face or mask.

Interesting geometric designs.

Double circles.

Quadruple circles.

And more quadruples.

And finally, my exploration was over. I reached the end of my trail. There may have been  more, but I would save them for another visit.

Next up: Valley of Fires near Carrizozo, New Mexico.