The holidays

We are about a month away from our big adventure, and we spend our time planning, list making, packing, worrying (not too much), and still trying to hike and explore NM. We were on the Canyon trail at the Bosque last week with some friends from the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance when Christianne noticed something on the rock wall about 10 feet up. It was a petroglyph! A perfect turtle carved in the sandstone face and unseen for hundreds of years. A great find. I found one a little further up canyon a year ago but wasn't certain of its authenticity. Now I'm sure. The next day Sandra and I hiked back but couldn't find the turtle but in a little side canyon shelter that we figured would have been used by Piro or other native americans, someone had cut a hand print into the rock. Now, this may not excite everyone like it does me, but to think of finding something like this that's been hidden for 5 hundred or a thousand years blows me away.