I had a long hike planned for the following day but I stopped during the drive to camp for a quick three-mile warm-up hike. I knew I would need 4WD to get into this area but the electric motor that shifts the transfer case on my truck hasn’t worked for a long time. Back at home shortly before this trip I crawled under the truck to verify that I could shift it manually using a wrench and it worked fine, so on this trip just before I reached the spot where I needed it I threw a tarp on the ground and shifted the truck into 4-low. I hiked to a small canyon I’d been in once before from both ends but this time I traveled the whole thing through, hoping to find something new in the middle. A short approach over some hilly terrain led me to some cottonwoods at the mouth of the canyon.
Part of a barbed wire spool on a fence post
Hilly country
Cottonwood in the canyon
I visited some familiar Fremont pictographs and an inscription by Warren Allred, and farther into the canyon I saw a new-to-me inscription and a picture of a man drawn in the same black paint or perhaps axle grease. The rest of the middle section of the canyon didn’t really have anything interesting in it.
Shaly overhang
Pictograph and Warren Allred 1898 inscription
Fremont pictographs
Water trough rusting away
Depiction of a man
Walking in the canyon
Bill Davis and another illegible name, November 2?, 1928
Water tank
Yellow flowers
Near the end of the canyon I saw more pictographs that I’d already been to. It’s difficult to pin a particular style on these but I’d guess maybe they’re archaic? One panel–my favorite in this area–consists of a row of many small and elongated figures.
The canyon was quite winding so when I finished hiking through it I wasn’t very far from the truck despite having covered a couple of miles. The sun was nearing the horizon when I returned to the truck and it fully set before I got to camp on the rim of Eagle Canyon.
The waiting truck
Layers through the haze
Rising moon
Hazy full moon
Riding into the sunset
Photo Gallery: Eagle Canyon Pre-Game