Six long miles in the field will get you here........

creekwalker · Dec 20, 2010

After my buddy and I trudged three miles through rattlesnake infested desert and bouldered three more through sun-scorched Slaughter Canyon, we at last arrived at our destination.......The Painted Grotto. Want to see some pictographs that very few people have seen in person? Here you go......Enjoy!

shaun7 · Dec 20, 2010

I bet that was worth it :icon_thumleft:

How old are the paintings?

packerbacker · Dec 20, 2010

Pretty neat stuff! I've always wondered though, did the rest of the tribe get upset when they saw the "paintings" like we do with modern graffiti? Were they done to preserve history, were they considered artists, historians or vandals? Graffiti is so common on freight cars now that new model trains come with it or you can buy decals to represent it. I wonder if society will ever get to the point where removing graffiti is a crime and we begin to preserve it

I gotta get more coffee. :coffee2:

NOTE: I should stay out of the "politics" forum this morning.

rginn · Dec 20, 2010

Very cool, creekwalker, thanks for posting those. Hopefully the spray paint party crowd won't find them. I spend some time down around Moab searching out rock art; mostly petroglyphs, I don't see too many pictographs. Maybe the climate is too hard on the paint, but the colors still look pretty good in your pics. I look for possible interpretations. Finally last summer put the connection together with two that were basically road signs to a campsite. You followed them like a road map and they brought you to a prehistoric camp site. Of course nobody was home now, but it was cool to find that site, and I don't believe the state archeologists or anybody else has noted it yet.