My daughter and I went hiking the day after Thanksgiving in Calf Creek Canyon in Escalante - Grand Staircase National Monument in southern Utah. We drove over in the late morning from Panguitch where we were spending the holiday with my sister and her family and started hiking around noon. The weather had been rain and snow earlier in the week, but thing cleared up nicely for the hike and the sun was shining most of the time. This hike is very popular and the parking lot at the trailhead was full by the time we got there.
We were about a mile into the hike when we started looking on the opposite canyon wall (to the east) for pictographs. We thought we saw some faint ones, but weren't sure. So I pulled out the telephoto lens to get a better look, but we still couldn't tell for sure. Just to be safe I took a couple of photos to look at later.
As we continued up the trail, my daughter spotted the pictographs we were looking for - a group of three figures in a row clearly visible on a cliff face across the canyon. I got some shots of these too and we continued the hike.
When we got back to a computer and I uploaded the photos we noticed that the faint markings we originally saw were, indeed, pictographs. In fact there were at least a dozen of them, but we would never have seen them without the telephoto shots.
We were about a mile into the hike when we started looking on the opposite canyon wall (to the east) for pictographs. We thought we saw some faint ones, but weren't sure. So I pulled out the telephoto lens to get a better look, but we still couldn't tell for sure. Just to be safe I took a couple of photos to look at later.
As we continued up the trail, my daughter spotted the pictographs we were looking for - a group of three figures in a row clearly visible on a cliff face across the canyon. I got some shots of these too and we continued the hike.
When we got back to a computer and I uploaded the photos we noticed that the faint markings we originally saw were, indeed, pictographs. In fact there were at least a dozen of them, but we would never have seen them without the telephoto shots.
This is the image that first caught our eye. Notice the fainter images to the right with the yellow tint.
This image is located to the left of the one above. I enhanced the contrast to make it easier to see the sheep.
This is a wider view of the whole area. If you look carefully you can see several faint images here.
For higher resolution views of these and other photos visit the url below.
The alcove where these pictographs are located in the center of the Google Maps box below. The more visible "Three Men" pictograoh is in the alcove immediately to the northwest.
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Awesome.
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