Butler Wash

Yesterday we hiked up the Butler Wash area near Bluff. This area is one of the best I know of for exploring Indian ruins. Cissie found a wonderful arrow head, which you can see above. It is illegal to keep these so we put them back. I do take a GPS reading so I know excactly where they are. If you you ever hike in this part of the country and you can be trusted to respect artifacts, I could give you the location. We found another excellent specimen last year which is still in place. One of my favorite things is finding good pottery sherds that have decorations on them. The sites we visited yesterday were very good. One picture above shows a very old Navajo sweat lodge. The Anasazi did not use sweat lodges. The Navajo do not disturb Anasazi ruins, which is one reason they are still intact. The ruin in the cave in the one picture above had a spring in it. This is a terrific bonus, to have running water. It is also unusual to find such sites.