Another Adventure and another find.

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Another day another Indian adventure. Today the Kadizzlites took off to find an Indian site Faye told us about. Faye is the camp host. Faye was born around these parts and knows them well, however, Faye's ability to give directions could use a tune up.

Following Faye's instructions The Commander and Lord Kadizzle put the Yamaha in the back of the truck and took off. After the motorcycle portion of the journey was complete the search was on. Kadizzle thought the search was for a typical cliff dwelling type site. Apparently he had the wrong thought in his head, but with this in mind the adventurers started down a stream toward the Salt River. This was after a eight mile drive up Cherry Creek east of Roosevelt Lake.

As the Kadizzles got close to the Salt River the canyon got very narrow and with very steep sides. Something seemed to be wrong, and we were cut off by the complexity of the drop, with no safe way to go farther. Frustrated The Commander said it was time to turn around. Kadizzle was about tuckered out, but gave in to The Commander and we hiked up onto a Mesa. It was a tough haul up to the top, but that seemed like the only place the Indian site could be. Kadizzle skirted the edge of the Mesa hoping to find the site, but his Indian intuition told him it was probably at the highest point of the Mesa, so he sent The Commander to check it out.

To Kadizzle's amazement The Commander for once followed the “Safety Rules”. The safety rules dictate that if you are out of sight from each other for over fifteen minutes you turn on your two way radio. Of course Kadizzle obeyed the rule. Soon the Commander came on the radio saying she found the site. The site turned out to be a bit unusual. It had a wonderful view in all directions, but was very defensive in nature. It was a rare site that seemed to have a defensive wall completely surrounding it. In the middle were the dwellings. For the size of the site there was relatively little pottery.

The outer wall seemed to form a squared about 150' by 150'. Inside there looked to be about ten rooms. It was ultimately a combination of luck and good orienteering that got us to the site. The next time we get instructions from Faye there will be more detail. Our mistake was not wasted we did go into a very nice canyon and enjoyed it.