October 25-26, 2022 Bluff, Utah

 58 and sunny today.

We hiked to Split Level Ruins through a beautiful canyon. First view of the ruins through the trees.

This was a huge petroglyph, maybe 10 feet long. A partial wall in the lower ruin. 

Yellow evening primrose and petroglyphs. There were tons of petroglyphs, but they are so eroded that they are hard to see. The white ones I tried to enhance in Photoshop to make them more visible. Part of the upper ruins. 

Lots of metates for grinding corn. Possibly the kiva was here.

Nice ruins. Handprints in the back of one of the rooms. 

John with ruins. Some petroglyphs with metates and pictographs. 

I was climbing around trying to figure out how to get to the upper ruins and found out how they did it, these moki steps carved into the rock. I am not brave enough to try them. The upper and lower ruins of Split Level ruin. 

Beautiful canyon walls on the way back. 

Sunset. The next day was 63 degrees and sunny. We decided to check out the three small ruins in Hobb's Canyon.  Cute little paintbrush. 

It appears that to see the ruins you have get into this canyon that is about 200 feet below. We decided to try it another time and went back to the car.

Mr. Hobbs was one of the scouts exploring for a feasible for the  250  Mormon (Hole in the Rock) pioneers to follow from their encampments above the Colorado River Gorge, 100 mile s west of here.  They ended up building a crazy rugged road for 100 miles to get here. He carved his name into the rock here.