We visited a small petroglyph and pictograph site out in the middle of a lonely Nevada valley. The petroglyphs are primarily around a rain-filled tinaja in a basalt lava flow. The tinaja is the only source of water for some distance. This would have been an important stop while
Willow Witch Petroglyphs
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The gang hiking out to the petroglyph site.
Approaching the site.
A little bit of water still left in the tinaja.
Petroglyph panel. Complex Great Basin Rectilinear and Curvilinear Abstract style.
Some are quite faded.
Closer look at some.
Slowly disappearing under a new coat of desert varnish.
The only bighorn sheep I saw here.
Another look at the tinaja (watch catchment).
Petroglyphs.
I spotted some very faint pictographs.
Enhanced, false color image of the pictographs. You can see the designs here.
Lichen growing over some faint petroglyphs.
A wider look at the pictographs.
False color of the pictographs.
Some scratchings over petroglyphs.
Hard to see in this picture but a very faint trail heads away from the site.
Last Updated on August 2, 2020 by Guy Starbuck
