Today the hiking crew took a jaunt up Reevis Gap. Kadizzle has always wondered about this route. Kadizzle speculates about the possibility it may have been an important Indian trade route. There is what appears to be an Indian dwelling site on the trail. Today Kadizzle hiked back to the truck leisurely while Cliff and The Commander forged on at full speed. One sight Kadizzle always likes to find to verify a site is pottery shards. On the way in Kadizzle found none, but on the way out he found enough to convince him indeed this was a site.
Kadiizzle thinks the Indians in the Roosevelt Lake area were trading with the Indians in the Superstition Mountains or the Salt River area. Kadizzle's theory is the trade was grain for meat. Now to get this stuff back and forth the Indians needed what later would be called stage coach stops. The site on the Reevis gap trail would have been perfect for this. It would have been an overnight rest for the people going back and forth. Indians traveling through Reevis Gap would have had a great short cut to the Salt River north of the current Roosevelt Dam.
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