Camping trip...

DAA

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I haven't been able to get out and do much lately. Wife finally told me to get out of the house and go play in the dirt for a few days before I turned suicidal.

So last weekend a couple buddies and I took off for The Maze, four nights, five days. Different camp spot every night. Covered just under 300 miles of dirt. Most of it I've done and seen many times, but neither of my buddies had ever seen any of it and I always enjoy showing friends the neat stuff hidden out in that country.

Just a big old picture dump here, know some of you guys appreciate this kind of stuff.

Dinosaur bones. These were new to me, they aren't that unusual in this area, but we found a good pocket of them, found dozens of them in about half an hour. This one had the most showing though, can tell somebody else has been trying to chip it out.

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Garden variety Fremont petroglyphs

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Little geyser. Was spouting the best I've seen it in many years, but still nothing like it was twenty years ago.

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Just a couple of the inscriptions at Robbers Roost spring. Wolverton is a famous name from a hundred years ago. The other was a wife of one of the leaders of the famous Hole In The Rock expedition. My great-great grandpa took part in a famous shootout with outlaws about half a mile from this spot.

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Shootout was just down around the corner in this picture. Those are the Henrys in the background.

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Flint cabins. Built in 1919.

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View from up on The Neck. Cataract canyon and the Abajos in the distance.

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My friend Kevin on the foot trail down into The Maze.

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The rock art I was taking him to see.

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- DAA
 
Views from one of our camp spots over looking The Maze.

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Old cattle brands. I recognize most, but not all of them. None of these outfits has been in existence for at least 80 years.

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Old cave house down by the river. Fairly new, for this country, was built in 1948. One of, if not the last guy to try and scratch out a living in this country. Park service ran everyone out when the national park was formed, but there weren't many left hanging on by then to run out anyway.

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Another camp site. This may very well be the most remote, hardest to get to official national park camp site in the country. I'm not aware of any that can be driven to that are any more lonely, less visited and take longer to drive to than this one. John Wesley Powell camped in this exact same spot in 1871.

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Dead Horse canyon

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F-150 action shots, lol!

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Old outlaw inscriptions on Water Hole Flat.

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Lightly used mano and metate.

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Worked flint a few feet from the grindstone.

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Another camp site.

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Tons of petrified wood laying around in that spot.

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Butch Cassidy inscription nearby too.

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Same rock has this one right by the Butch inscription. I've talked to all the old timers I can, never have figured out who S.J. might have been though. That was the real deal, no bull, hoot owl trail through that canyon in those days, one of the roughest trails into The Roost, wish I did know who it was.

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Was mostly just driving home from there...

- DAA
 
You definitely get out there and enjoy the outdoors. Some of the most remote places it seems. Great pics, thanks for sharing.
 
Always look forward to your pictures, Dave. That is some really beautiful country. Thanks for sharing!

Regards,
hm
 
Dave, that sir looks to be an EPIC adventure! Thanks for sharing. I'd think the purpose of posta like this is to stoke motivation for folks to get out. Mission accomplished. The old homesites are something I personally love to find & contemplate. Keep getting out there!
 
Thanks fellas. Really glad you get some enjoyment out of these. Sharing the pics is really the only point in taking them anymore.

- DAA
 
Thanks for another vicariously lived expedition. Your photos always remind me of reading Zane Grey as a young boy. Thanks again.
 
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