In early November a friend and I backpacked about 30 miles through Salt Creek and the Peakaboo Trail in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park, Utah. This canyon is renowned for its numerous Ancient Puebloan ruins and pictographs; in fact I've never seen so many ruins outside of the Cedar Mesa area!
Backpacking through Salt Creek
November 2017 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
The unique "All American Man" Ancient Puebloan pictograph in Salt Creek.
A fiery sunset over Salt Creek.
Moon over Angel Arch at dawn.
A vaguely phallic scene below Angel Arch.
A fantastic "second" sunset near Peakaboo (the little hole in the wall on the right side) about a half hour after the real sunset.
Ancient Puebloan pictographs from around 1,000-1,300 AD. It's hard to see in this photo, but underneath these pictographs are older reddish figures dating from 1,000-3,000 BC!
Climbing up through a slot along the Peakaboo Trail.
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