Soreness

Getting old means losing flexibility, hiking and being sore, and on it goes.  Yesterday Kadizzle set out with Uncle Ben and Josh to find some pictographs.  Last year when we were at Sedona someone told us how to get to some Indian art at the base of a cliff we had been looking for.  The pictographs are not easy to find.  When an Indian site is hard to find that means it will be well preserved.  The degenerates like to deface and ruin Indian remnants.  Degenerates usually will not hike far or put in any effort to get to anything so that is the good news about well hidden sites.  Kadizzle thought he could remember where on the main trail one turned off to get to the site. Unfortunately for Ben and Josh Kadizzle got mixed up.  In his head Kadizzle tried to remember last years hike.  Last year Sylvie made the hike, so Kadizzle remembered being proud how far Sylvie had hiked.  Next Kadizzle remembered the turn off was some even mile point.  For some reason he thought the mile point was one mile.  Anyway we hiked well past where we should have turned off the trail.  Luckily we encountered and older couple sitting on a rock having lunch.  They knew of the pictographs and sent us back down the trail to the turn off.

The National Park Service knows that ancient sites are endangered by idiots.  In an effort to keep sites from being defaced by Trump voters the park service does not mark trails or maintain trails to the sites. In fact the Park Service tries to obscure the trails.  That is why we could not find the beginning of the trail.  Additionally the Park Service is happy to let the trails fall into disrepair. In the end we did find the art.  Sadly vandals have over the years also found and destroyed some of the art.