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John Morrow
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The first leg of my desert travels for 2016. 2 hikes in Canyonlands National Park and two hikes tracing parts of an Archaic migration route of the ancestral Puebloans as told in rock art.
Murphy Point Island in the Sky District Canyonlands:
Where to camp in Moab area is always an issue. One way to guarantee a spot is to reserve the flat 1.8 mile hike into the Murphy Point backcountry zone of the Island in the Sky. Abert (David) and I met at the Visitor Center as I finished the long drive and we set up at Murphy Point.
 Canyonlands National Park, Island in the Sky District  Sunset color on the Wingate Sandstone  Sunrise over the Green River  More sunrise  Elaterite Butte  Hellroaring Canyon  From the rim into Dubinky Wash  Dubinky Wash, Hellroaring Canyon  Dubinky cattle trail, easier than it looks. Neat feature!  What the cattle trail is really like  David in the Wash  Big broad Wingate Sandstone walls  Love walking under this  Hellroaring Canyon  Moki steps to what????  The Kachina Spires  Find the exit on the ledges  First ledge  2nd ledge famous "Crawl"!  Noticed a moki step...looks like an "old" route!  On top again, rim and jeep trail return  An unassuming canyon  South Fork Mill Creek Canyon  David hopping rocks  Forks  South Fork Mill Creek Canyon  Cottonwoods starting to leaf  Lots of beaver activity  Time to find a climb out  The Ancient writing is on the wall  Climbing out  slab ribs look fun  LaSal Mountains come into view  Class 3 friction fun  David over the ribs  Sand Flats and distant Arches National Park  Johnsons On Top mesa and jeep trail back  Tortured and twisted in Mill Canyon  Across at Behind the Rocks face  Descending a slickrock wash to TH  Fun!  Descended that to the golf course!  Upheaval Dome area, Island in the Sky District. Canyonlands National Park, UT  The Green River and Potato Bottom  Canyonlands National Park, Island in the Sky District  Canyonlands National Park, Island in the Sky District  The Dome area  Dome trail  Upheaval Dome, Island in the Sky District. Canyonlands National Park, UT  Whitbeck Rock scramble  Class 3 NE side  View to Taylor Canyon  Beehive Butte  Old growth crypto  Route is far left shadow sun line on rib from NE  Island sunset  Canyonlands National Park, Island in the Sky District  wide torso morph  simple  hands held  rakey thingy  bearlike zoomorph is strange  no name  hunt  caught behind fallen boulders  Bartlett Panel  calved boulder just missed  giant anthropomorph  fading anthropomorphs  bizarre headed snakes  snakes and more  big complex panel  curvylinear, morphs, sheep, tracks  neat pattern  a procession  fine bear track  angle view  four arms?  eyes wide open  polychrome detail  fine detail tracks around beings  tracks up close  a favorite  unique snakes  another spiral tail  crazy snakes  neat creatures  beautifully preserved panel  faded  why the curvy line?  archaic anthropomorph torso?  circles and sun  spirals, waves  Moab Man  three legged?  bright varnish sheen  ???  beautiful, almost gesture of no fear!  moon cycle?  bighorn all over  perfectness  hmm  connected arms in grid  haunting Barrier Canyon Style  Yellow Comet  Big BCS morphs  sheep and tracks  big horns bighorn  elk antlers  streaked with mud  fine morphs and sheep  beings  interesting arms  dancing koko  morphs around bear track?  holding atlatl spear  Happenings  track and sheep  headdress morph  spiral tail snake
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”-Mary Oliver
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
― MLK Jr.
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”-Mary Oliver
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
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the Zachster
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I always enjoy your desert adventures! Love the rock art. Must be exciting to find it off the beaten path.
"May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am"
"May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am"
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sticky buns
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That's a lot of art! I like the goats and the juggler(??) [5227].
Good Murphy Pt tip. Alas, it's all booked for my likely time there.
I'm excited for those claret cup cacti in your Needles post, well, and all that beautiful rock, too.
If you find more steps, would you put a foot or hand in them for perspective? Neat to learn about them; I suspect I would've just walked by. It must be pretty awesome to know that you're traveling an ancient route.
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JimL
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Terrific report and great pictures as always.
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John Morrow
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| sticky buns wrote: | | If you find more steps, would you put a foot or hand in them for perspective? Neat to learn about them; I suspect I would've just walked by. It must be pretty awesome to know that you're traveling an ancient route. |
Hello sticky buns,
Here's Abert on a ledge with the aid of some Moki steps:
 Moki steps help  careful!  steps to aid  Moki steps!  my foot and Moki steps
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”-Mary Oliver
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
― MLK Jr.
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”-Mary Oliver
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
― MLK Jr.
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