Day Off #2
July 12, 2013
Having driven more than a hundred miles yesterday, Fred wanted to stay close to home for today's outing. We traveled about a mile north to explore a tributary of Kanab Creek based on our Indian artifacts guru's information that there are petroglyphs on a cliff-face along the wash. However, we had no idea of their distance from the confluence or even which side of the wash on which they are located. We found a track and followed it until it disappeared into dense brush and scrubby trees. A consolation discovery was a few petroglyphs and some pottery shards at a boulder near the highway north of Kanab Creek.
We continued on to Best Friends and climbed to a cave we'd spotted on an earlier visit. Scrambling up the sandstone was hot and challenging in places but the view that rewarded us justified the effort. From debris around the site, we speculated that the cave was man-made, or at least enhanced, for an extraction activity, possibly to obtain the fine, pure white sand inside. The cave didn't exist or was only a fraction of its current size when Native Americans inhabited the area so the etchings covering the walls are relatively recent.
How does that rock stay there?
Looking south from inside sandy cave at Best Friends
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