Southern Nevada

We met up with some friends to poke around a surprisingly nice petroglyph site in an empty corner of the Nevada desert. The black basalt ridge where all the petroglyphs are located doesn’t look like anything special from a distance, but that changes when you get close and hike

While on a trip with the late great Roger Mitchell, we stopped to visit a little boulder cave in the Mojave Desert. The cave is only a few feet long, but a large, flat granite boulder is in the center. Its surface is covered with cupules and edges polished smooth

Lida Wash, in the Palmetto Mountains of western Nevada, doesn't see much traffic. While on our way to another petroglyph site, we spotted these very faint petroglyphs carved into volcanic ash. The petroglyphs appear to be of the Desert Archaic Abstract style. They blend in very well and