Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Canebrake Wash / Indian Valley - ABDSP

A trip out to explore the ridge lines of Indian Valley was detoured by the rains and instead turned into a trip out into Canebrake Wash. When I drove into Indian Valley the weather was great. I drove out to the end of the north fork and was going to camp there but the bees were numerous and after about 30 minutes I found myself doing nothing but swatting bees away from me and the inside of my truck so I decided to go back down the road a bit to a nice little sandy area that was bee free. During the night the clouds started rolling in and so did the wind. My truck was rocking like crazy from the wind, it can get really, really windy in Indian Valley. The morning showed me nothing but dark rain clouds hovering above False Sombrero so I decided to go out into Canebrake Wash and explore there instead. Canebrake and Inner Pasture is really just amazing place, it is vast and empty, I am becoming fond of hiking there.

A possible yoni rock carving in Indian Valley
Yoni in North Indian Valley

Mr. Taratula in Canebrake
Tarantula in Canbrake Wash

Agave plant scat..yumm
Agave seed scat, great stuff

Large sand berm in Canebrake (click to enlarge)
View of the large sand dune in Canebrake Wash

The Crawford Ranch
The Crawford Ranch

Looking west-north from the sand berm, wow...it is just amazingly vast here..that is Red Top in the distance. You can see the rain clouds moving in.
Canebrake Wash with RedTop in the distance

Looking North into Inner Pasture towards Moonlight Canyon...it is far away.
Looking north towards Inner Pasture

Morteros near some rock shelters indicate Native American habitation
Morteros

Why do they always crap in the morteros???
Scat in a mortero

Close up showing the hair and bones in the scat
Scat in a mortero

One of the larger rock shelters I found (click to enlarge)
Rock Shelter or possible hunting blind

View north-west from the shelter (click to enlarge)
View from the rock shelter looking west-north

Another smaller rock shelter, little remained
Another smaller rock shelter, little remained

More possible Yoni rock carvings back in Indian Valley
Yoni rock carvings in North Indian Valley

Leaving Indian Gorge a nice rainbow stretched across the road. It was short lived though as the rain was following me and would soon start raining hard.
Rainbow leaving Indian Gorge

Total Mylar balloon count for a 7 mile hike - 6
Total mylar ballon count for the trip - 6

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