At the trailhead: Mark, Connie, Kent, Melissa, Jill, Rick(ety), Mike, and Paul. Susan is on camera duty.
On Labor Day at 8 am nine adventurous souls set off to find the Parrish Canyon Fremont pictographs. The pictographs are not very far up the canyon. It was a little cold and Mark loaned Jill his coat. I am told it is a thirty minute hike but I didn’t time it. According to the minutes of the Centerville City Trails Committee meeting held Thursday, April 10, 2008, the pictographs had been damaged:
Mark Day reported he hiked to the Fremont pictographs in Parrish Canyon, and he said they have been vandalized. He said some of the pictographs have been scratched, and others have been rubbed out. (Trails Committee Meeting Minutes)
So we set off to see if we could take some pictograph photographs. I will show you first the path we took to the pictographs and then in the next post the pictographs themselves.
We set off on the trail. We got lost. Asked directions. Continued.
When you get to the bridge, cross it and turn right.
Take a picture of the waterfall and continue.
Follow the creek just like Connie and Susan are doing here.
At this point in a normal blog you would see the pictographs. But there are too many photographs already so the pictographs are in the next post.
Paul and Mike continued onward and upward. I followed. I wish I hadn't.
We got back before the others and met Merrill on Red.
Red is an Arabian Paint and his real name is in Russian which I can't pronounce much less spell.
That is interesting that the pictographs had been rubbed out. This is the adventurer in me speaking and is pure speculation, but I wonder if it was done for a purpose ~ given some of the history of this area.
Basically, those panels tell a story. Every position of each mark means something. Notice how the “horns” on one head comes down to a point and another is squared off? Or the figure next to the “fox” has one arm larger than the other? It means something.
So, what if someone {who knows what it all means of course ;) } was trying to prevent others from translating it? It is pure speculation, but makes it more exciting, doesn’t it?
It makes sense that the drawings must have meant something. I just tried to take good photographs of them, I didn’t really look at them that closely. Well done.