Talk about a trip you took out to Anza Borrego
Indian Hill Trip
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X EAGLE 23 X Posts: 16
11/14/2011
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Hi all, I'm semi-new here, been around a while just never got around to posting. Made my third trip out to Indian Hill on Friday to do some exploring and take a closer look at some of the pictographs. On the drive out I straddled a small black object and turned around to find that it was this guy trying to cross the road. So I took some pictures and made sure it got off the road safely before continuing on.
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I have visited the site before and went through my pictures prior to this trip in order to make a mental list of specific pictographs I wanted to take a closer look at, as well and find some other loci (locations) of others which had been reported by some of the earlier archaeologists. After some wandering around I found one other set of them:
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This panel appears to be two (headless) stick figures, the left with exaggerated arms/legs.
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After that I climbed to the top of the hill and to my surprise discovered an interesting small rock shelter as well as two cupule holes.
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The opening has some strange markings near the top (yellow/reddish color in the picture), but after running it through DStretch it appears to be natural and not man-made.
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Here is one of the cupule holes at the top (boot for scale)
While in the process of climbing to the top I came across this small campsite where someone lit a small fire.
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I then decided to search for the "tank" which I had read about in an earlier thread here. I spotted its possible location while at the top of Indian Hill and went to investigate it and found it was completely empty except what appears to be a small spring which feeds it.
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I was quite surprised to find multiple grinding areas around the tank, and while checking these out two vultures began to soar over us
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We headed back to the jeep and jumped a few jackrabbits on the way and on the drive through Motero Wash on the way back to S2
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It was a good and successful trip. I managed to squeeze behind the main rock shelter and found it to be full of mountain lion scat, so be very careful in that area, it is obvious that the lions are active and visit the area on a regular basis.
Jordan
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