Death Valley Pictographs #1

This site was not difficult to reach, though took painstaking hours of research to find. I'll leave the location out of this one, it is vandalism free and is a very special place. Be sure to leave no trace.

All of these pictos are in red pigment,  and while there are glyphs over a small area, the pictos only in this small cave on the edge of a stark valley. The cave is in some sort of marble I think, and is essentially a boulder pile but is large enough to stay twenty degrees cooler than the outside air. I crawled through some of the smaller cracks inside to yield no further art. Enjoy these pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them. Many were enhanced to better show the pigments.

Artifacts should be left where they are. It is illegal to remove them.

Beginning the walk out we find this neat fossil in the mentioned Tin Mountain limestone. 

 Reaching the site. On the dirt patch are very fresh bighorn sheep tracks. Missed them this time!

The First petroglyphs: 

 This rock was facing the sun, so this one glyph was heavily varnished.

 Stark valley.

 Amazing scenery out here

 First point of the day:

 Water collects in these cracks; they are very marshy and attract wildlife.

Fresh tracks. The urine was still wet for crying out loud!

Rounding the corner when. . .

Astonished at this amazing find in the middle of the desert!

 Roof

 Down low

 Hard to find

 This amazing point was on the floor of the cave. Nearly cut myself on it accidentally, its still very sharp.

No idea on this. My guess is something with the modern Death Valley Timbsha-Shoshone Indians leaving an offering? Bundle of sticks wrapped in red thread.

First of many obsidian flecks

Fertility symbols in a cleft in the rock. The word for these is atlatl.

More points

Marble dendrites 

Found this in a pile of other obsidian flakes

The most impressive obsidian find that day.

Back to the cool temperatures of the cave

We searched in some other nearby shelters and ledges and found no further pictos or petros.

Leaned back in front of the cave and saw these on the ceiling.

Mushroom in a patch that had snow on it months back

Neat animal trail

The most amazing site I have been thus far in my DV travels. It only took three hours to drive to the trailhead! This is and has been one of my favorite areas of the park to explore, having stumbled upon even more rock art earlier in the day. Please check out Guy Starbuck's site and the DZRTGRLS site. They are more knowledgeable than I on this site and I used them as sources for my hunt.