What’s My Favorite Game…..?
My favorite game is “I wonder where this road goes?”. Sometimes it just dead ends in some unremarkable spot. And then there are times when you hit the jackpot. Yesterday I hit the jackpot.
It all started with a pretty gnarly thunderstorm moving into the valley from the Sierra. And as is evident in much of my work I really love stormy weather. As I have been working on my petroglyph collection lately I thought it might be good time to go out to the Red Rock petroglyph site. I got some good images of the storm and the main panel. I then headed south to the Chidago site where I met two families out on an adventure drive through the Volcanic Tablelands. At the Chidago site there is a road (dirt and rough) that headed east into what looked like a canyon. So I started my game. It quickly became a narrow and steep canyon. The road wasn’t too bad, though it was a little narrow in places. It bottomed out in a dry wash and the road disappeared. I thought “Oh, oh. This isn’t good.” It looked as though there had been some type of vehicle traffic quite some time ago. And as I didn’t really fancy driving back up the canyon I put the car in 4wd and decided to give it a try. I followed the wash for some distance and it finally returned to a dirt road. After a short distance and to my surprise I came upon a new (to me) petroglyph site. I was elated.
I have now learned that this is the Chalfant Petroglyph site. It spreads out along a bluff from the parking area to the south and the north. I’m guestimating it is about 3/4 of a mile total. The south side has been badly vandalized. I was going to insert a virulent rant at this point but have decided to follow my own guidelines……no politics or religion or bashing. Still I found some unique and beautiful glyphs in this section.
The posted image is of the north section. It is really beautiful. There are some of the largest petroglyphs that I have seen. Two of the largest can be seen in the image. They are close to three plus feet in diameter. One can only wonder at what these mean.
All in all, another great adventure in wonderland.
