Indian Ruins

Jim and Leigh run a shuttle service in town and Tim and I helped them run some trucks down to Lake Powell. On our first trip out, we stopped by a viewpoint that had a bunch of welded steel tubes that looked like T's with signs underneath. When you looked through the tube, voila! Gopher Rock!One my favorite parts about Utah is how unadulterated history remains. National parks are wonderful, and I fully support them, but you feel like a pioneer when you find an ancient pictograph that isn't being pointed out or protected. A million people drive by the rock wall where either A Boy And His Dog or A Princess And Her Goat (depending on who you ask) is painted without ever knowing of its existence. It's somewhere between Hanksville and Lake Powell on the right side of the road.After a quick drive through Natural Bridges National Monument, they remembered an unmarked ruin off to the side of the highway. So we parked the car in the middle of nowhere, got out, and started wandering around. And sure enough, there was an Indian ruin by a wash, under a cliff! The walls were crumbling, but people who had been by the site before cached some pottery and rope and thousand year old corn cobs.