2This is what we are looking for: the Wolfman Panel of Petroglyphs This is what we are looking for: the well-known "Wolfman Panel" of petroglyphs
3 The "valley" is a little deeper than was apparent from the parking lot.
4 Joe, Don and Ed work their way down the trail.
5 We're following the trail
6 Aha! We reach a certain level and look at the wall behind us. The famous Wolfman Panel. The individual petroglyphs are the largest we have seen. These are really unique, interesting and very well preserved.
7 Is this the Wolfman?
8 You tell us.
9 A few bullet holes add to the ambience.
10 See the wolf prints on this panel. These prints along with the man figure, may have led to the panel's name: wolf-man. It's the hypothesis of some archeaologists; but, an hypothesis that will never be tested.
11 Lower with teeth?
12 Three birds and a man.
13 The spirals are fairly common; the insects, not so much.
14 We proceed on to the "ruin" that is across the canyon and up on a shelf on the other wall. Undergrowth is thick near stream level.
15 Cliff Dwellers usually built at hard-to-get-to locations
16 Unreconstructed dwellings
17 Shelter caves and overhangs allowed sunlight in the winter and shade in the summer
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19 Some interior plaster (i.e., mud) remains here.
20 Sleeps two adults and two children snugly. Highly rated on TripAdvisor, we hear. Ed gets a "Kodak moment."
21 BobF and Joe explore
22 Sans explorers.
23 Deep-cut petroglyphs are common where no varnish layer is present.
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26 The rubble is apparently from fallen dwellings.
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28 Four legs and snouts; are these javelina?
29 Something has dined on a petal of this cactus flower. It wasn't us!
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31 Pot shards speak of the ancient inhabitants. We always return them to where we find them.
