Bud hurt his foot, probably last Friday, and exacerbated the injury playing disc golf on the very hilly course on Monday. So we’ve been doing driving tours for the last few days. I was about out of destinations to suggest so I consulted “All Trails” an App our son-in-law, Sean, introduced to me. Browsing for a short trail that perhaps Bud could walk I found the “Big Warrior Panel Trail”, a 0.2 mile loop that was listed as easy, where dogs were welcome and there were pictographs. Sounded good. The App will also give you directions. It was 27 miles away, Bud was up for it so off we went.
Well, only 9 of the 27 miles were paved. We encountered this bridge on the first of the unpaved roads. It was long…
but not wide! And not really paved, either.
The roads got narrower from there.
And the area got more and more remote. We drove miles up a shallow canyon filled with natural gas wells and pipelines. There was nothing at all to indicate there was any trail. Just as we reached the end of the blue line on my driving directions we saw a small brown sign that said “Main Panel” and there was a turn around with a place to park. And there, sure enough, was the trail.
It was pretty, but didn’t look too promising. There was a registration book, so I signed in. The last person to sign in was two days ago.
But, oh my, the petroglyphs we found! You could walk right up to them, too.
They were stunning.
And there was a sign to help you understand what you were seeing.
These were way more interesting than the ones we saw at Petroglyph National Monument.
We saw all these and more within 0.4 mile of the truck!
And we had the whole area to ourselves. Thank you All Trails and thank you Sean.
On the Roam Again 
Good thing you pushed on for the 27 miles! Those pictures on the rocks are quite impressive. Did you take time to figure out what any of them were saying?
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