So this is the pictograph to the left of the really crisp one seen in my last post. Sadly, this one has not fared well over the centuries. The left side of it has mostly been washed away by water running down the cliff face. I enhanced this one quite a bit so we could see some of the detail. When it was fresh, I think this one would have really been spectacular! It has many more elements to it than the last one I posted.
A close crop of an earlier post from a couple of weeks ago. Also, since I'm on my home computer, I slightly enhanced it using a parametric mask in Darktable to reveal a bit more detail.
I'm not sure who that old coot is photo bombing this cliff dwelling, but I saw him free climb down into the canyon from the mesa top. Silly old guy must have went up the wrong canyon looking for this ruin, climbed out, walked across the mesa, & then climbed down into this, the right canyon with its really cool cultural site. There's rock art decorating the canyon walls, pottery shards, 800-year-old corn cobs, & pressure flakes everywhere!
Nice! Using parametric masks in Darktable I was able to enhance the extremely faded green pictographs in this panel! Green is a very rare color to see in Utah Four Corners area pictographs.
Nice pictograph and hand print I found hiking canyons in Utah the other day. (Note: I enhanced the saturation a bit in Darktable using parametric masks. The original is quite faded, sadly.)
A nice pictograph I came across in canyon country yesterday. Probably ~800 years old. Actually saw some green pictographs as well! Very rare, but too faded for posting here. I might see if I can enhance them when I get back to my home computer.
I don't condone modern graffiti in canyon country, but this one where I'm camped at the end of a finger of rim rock is interesting. This would have been a very remote place in 1946. It's still pretty remote here. I wonder what David was doing out here? An early uranium prospector maybe? He carved this in a flat, up facing piece of sandstone. There's no ancient petroglyphs nearby, fortunately.
In the center of this photo, possibly visible if you zoom in, is a really cool ancestral Puebloan ruin. I'll be visiting it in the morning. (Phone photo.)
Taking today and tomorrow off from property hunting to do a little hiking and visiting some of my favorite spots. This is Sleeping Ute Mountain in the far SW corner of Colorado My campsite view for this evening. (Phone photo.)
Goodby Amber, Ich vermisse dich jetzt schon!
Sie hat mich ca 120.000 km begleitet, von 24h Rennen am Nürburgring, über die Alpen, bis an den nördlichsten Punkt Europas.
markantes markmal, hat einen Lackeinfall auf dem Oberrohr
A Kiva, with its original roof, tucked up under a cliff overhang in a small canyon (10/22/2018). The use of Kivas by ancient cliff dwellers is unknown. However, modern Hopi use Kivas for spiritual ceremonies.
Eagle Creek, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon. February 2017 (10 months prior to the huge wildfire consuming the entire valley and beyond). By far the most epic & memorable winter hike of my life so far (also great [again] in summer!). Pure solitude in pure cinematic PNW wilderness!