Nine Mile Canyon, Round Two

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I returned to Nine Mile Canyon on Sunday--the second trip in as many weeks--to find some rock art I'd missed the previous weekend. I found the Owl Panel this time. It turns out last time I was one canyon too far over. I was surprised by how many other petroglyphs were in the same area as the Owl Panel, and I spent a good chunk of time in the area.

Owl Panel overview
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Main owl figure
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Whoa, dude, put that thing away!
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Large lady
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Small owl
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Petroglyphs next to the Owl Panel
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A family of legless sheep(?)
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Sparsely-pecked sheep
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This is a great figure, down-canyon from the Own Panel and high on a cliff
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Another odd leashed(?) sheep, this time with the leash held by a deer
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Sheep (notice the forked tongue(?) on the deer)
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Deer
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Next I stopped at the Echo Site to look for a petroglyph panel that I had somehow not seen earlier. It turned out to be ridiculously obvious and I'm still not sure how I failed to see it before.

A panel at the Echo Site that I missed last time
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Sheep and faintly-visible hunter with bow
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I continued toward Cottonwood Canyon and stopped at a few random sites along the way. It began raining when I got to the parking spot for the Great Hunt Panel, so I jogged down the new (since I was last there) gravel path to the rock art panel, snapped two photos, then hurried back to the Jeep.

Horned guy with a buffalo and sheep
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Red and white pictographs
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White dots
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White pictographs
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Great Hunt Panel
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Pictographs near the Great Hunt
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I drove to near the end of the road along Nine Mile Canyon and saw a couple of petroglyph panels near the road, plus several way up high that will have to wait until better weather. The rain wasn't letting up so I turned around and headed for home. As I ascended the canyon the rain turned to snow, and I ran hail and heavy rain on the way back to Price.

Spiral petroglyphs
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Spiral and lines
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Heavy rain in Nine Mile Canyon
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Snow at the divide between Nine Mile Creek and Soldier Creek
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Full photo gallery: https://picasaweb.google.com/Dennis.Udink/NineMileCanyonRoundTwo

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