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Backpacking trip down to Horseshoe Mesa

 Abby pointing at a benchmark, 1200 feet below the south rim!

 Caves on Horseshoe Mesa

 Weird.

 We walked out to the tip of this thing.

 gnoming

 I LOVE this agave.

I also love that this tree decided to crack open a rock, slide a root down, then move over to another crack in a rock.

I also really like this tree, the squiggliness of it.

This is my favorite picture of us getting to the top. It's snowing. We started hiking up in t-shirts.

Petroglyphs and Pictographs!

I think this one is hilarious. Some Ancestral Puebloan really thought a lot about his manhood.

What does it mean?!

I think this panel is super awesome- it's got a really old pictograph, and then petroglyphs were pecked into the same rock. I like the bighorn sheep on the right. I have a thing for sheep glyphs. don't know why.

This one is red and yellow, thought that was pretty cool.

I believe this one on the left is a deer. See the antlers?

Spot the ruins

There are actually several ruins on this pinnacle. How the heck?

Tim and I go hiking and find strange stick stuctures in the forest. This one is weird because it's not teepee shaped. Hmm... Some of the sweat lodges we've found are a couple hundred years old. Who'd a thunk?

Comanche Point

The bigges cholla I've ever met in my life. Anybody can hug a tree, it takes balls to hug a cactus.

It's a sweat lodge.

 Straight down.

The first rattler I've ever seen or heard in the wild.

Strange things you'll find in the woods around here...

Walnut Canyon