More about the cave.

This is one entrance to the paved alley leading to the patio area. There are some trees growing up in there now. Lots of limbs and debris in here so you can't walk through from one end to the other. Have to go around.

This is one of the trees down across the alley. Lots of limbs and a big rats nest below it.

Going around to the other end of the alley where one of cave entrances is, we come across these big boulders undergoing the gradual erosion that will set them free from the batholith. Makes you wonder if when it happens, will they roll or will the just settle down in place.

This is on the one side of the cave. Look close at the base of this huge rock. This darn thing is just sitting in a grove in the flatter rock at it's base. Looks like just a small nudge would set it tumbling down the hill. So precarious. Something to wonder about but not to indulge in nudging to find out.

The old dude renigged on another trip to look for crystals, so we went back out to where the Army had made the indians from one tribe or group stay together here with the Yavapai Apaches. We have incountered ash in places along the road cut that is over 5 feet deep. For ash that deep, the Indians must have lived in the area many many years.

Not too far from where we live. This is the first place Mom took me to look for arrowheads and it is also the first place I took Phillip after he came down. We have usually always found arrowheads here. You have to hike quite a ways from the road to find anything any more. Phillip found one of his axes here. We have found quite a few good monos and over a hundred or more broken metates. The only whole matates are always much too big to remove. About a mile hike both ways. As usual Phillip found a good encampment. He got some interesting stuff, and I got zilch. Oh! but I did get exersize, fresh air and no-see-um bites.

I was looking at the time on some of my other posts. This blog is on daylight savings time and AZ isn't. Oh well!. Nevermind.

Granny.