{"id":2342,"date":"2021-06-15T13:09:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2021-06-15T14:09:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T20:09:23","slug":"san-rafael-river-camping-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=2342","title":{"rendered":"San Rafael River Camping Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In late May, after a snowy and wet late winter, I was looking forward to some sunshine and some time-off from work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on any photo for a larger version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before starting any adventure, it’s best to get your bearings and know where you are. I am here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Requisite shot of skeletal remains in the desert landscape.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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The first stop was near Fossil Point to wait out the wind storm. The next day’s dawn was calm, cool and clear.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Warming up in the sun, just finished breakfast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I decided to explore one of several unnamed slot canyons in the area. This led to a large flat wash and much to my surprise, found some petroglyphs on the bordering boulders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m going to call this one “Batman”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looks like someone or something killed batman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In a slightly different location, likely from the civil war era.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The next several days featured the San Rafael River and its associated canyons and drainages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Black Box” is what the map calls this area. Very deep and narrow canyon. The San Rafael River is trickling along the bottom. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Later that day, I went down to the river, west of Black Box. The river was mainly pools of water with a flow of about 1 CFS (cubic foot per second).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Crawfish or Crayfish exoskeleton about 6 inches long next to the river.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The river runs along where the green is.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Exploring the beginnings of a canyon. Only 10 feet deep at this point. (Lockhart Wash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A few hundred yards later, a drop off.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Soon the canyon is too deep to be in it, and looking down you can’t see the bottom. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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San Rafael River near the confluence of Lockhart Wash.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Litter from the 19th century.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wild donkeys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Signs of modern civilization is never far away, unfortunately.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of my camping spots. No one around for miles. Just the way I like it. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next stop was the Buckhorn Wash rock-art panel<\/a> (next post).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In late May, after a snowy and wet late winter, I was looking forward to some sunshine and some time-off from work. Click on any photo for a larger version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[175,122,205,206,193,120],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-camping","tag-desert","tag-petroglyphs","tag-pictographs","tag-slot-canyons","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}