Talk about a trip you took out to Anza Borrego
Indian Hill, again.
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TR Posts: 67
11/2/2011
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I went out again October 8th to Indian Hill to find the petroglyphs.
Here's the tower with a couple of birds circling it.
It had just rained recently. So there was a lot of fresh tracks.
I found this large chunk of rose quartz. It seems a bit out of place as there was no other samples of it around.
I was working on the assumption that the cave that the rock art was in was on the north east side of Indian Hill. I think I got that out of Jerry Schad's book. My topo map reading can't be that bad. This has to be Indian Hill. Here is an example of some barrel cacti on the north east side of Indian Hill.
A cactus fail, on the north east side of Indian Hill.
An Agave or Century Plant.
I figured that the cave would not be right at ground level. So I scoured the hillside for possibilities.
Then against my better judgment, I climbed the hillside to check out the prospects.
It was not a pretty sight.
But each site was a bust. Not a cave, or any rock art in the bunch.
So I took a couple pictures while I was up at the different sites. First to the north west.
With all the climbing around I did, and poking amoung the rocks, you'd think I would have come across a snake. But no snakes. I did almost step on a Kangaroo Rat. But didn't get a picture as it was quite fast.
Then to the north east.
At the base of Indian Hill I came across this scat. I'm not sure who's scat it is. Unlike most of Daren's pictures, there are no bits of bone and little teeth. So I was thinking it was possibly a domestic dog. But the tracks leading away from it were a single set. No, human foot prints anywhere around. So I sort of ruled out dog. So, as Sherlock Holmes says, when you've eliminated all the obvious clues, the remaining clues, no matter how unlikely must be true. So I'm left with vegetarian coyote or mountain lion?
Ran across more cans. One seemed to be opened with a knife or a hatchet slit to the top.
And of course here is the large mortero rock the Daren mentions, from my last trip.
Does someone have a GPS fix on the cave? Because I don't seem to be able to find it on my own.
I got back to the truck at 5:30. I ran into a young man who was just starting his hike to the trestle. He asked if I knew about the trestle. He also asked if he should park there, or continue on down the road. I told him, that parking here are following the jeep trail across the desert would cut out the big loop of track to the north. All he had was a Camelback and another liter of water. I gave him my map, and showed him the jeep trail. Told him to follow it out till it hit the tracks again, and then turn left. By this time it was 5:45. He took off across the desert and I left to go home. I went out Mortero Wash, and by the time I aired up my tires, it was dark.
It was really late to start the hike to the trestle. Even if he wanted to see it at sunset, he was going to miss it. I got to thinking that he probably doesn't know that there are a few tunnels between there and the trestle, and he didn't seem to have any lights. I figured he'd probably turn back at the first tunnel. And there's no way he could miss his truck, even if he missed the turn off to come back by Indian Hill.
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