Even more GPS work and some ballons
I was trying to sleep in the Saterday after thanksgiving. Around 8:00 in the morning I started hearing a roaring/dragging sound. I thought it was my neighbor dragging something around his yard or pulsing a propain torch. It turned out to be closer to the latter. When I finnaly looked out my window I realized it was a hot air ballon going right over my house.
A picture of one of the ballons and one of those parishoots you fly around (can't remember what it is called) It turned out I was still wrong, it wasn't a single ballon, or even two. It turns out there were 40+.
Looking south of my house
Looking north
South again, but looking at a different area.
A couple of shaped ballons, the devil is eclipsing the sun
A better view of the devil (he also has a tail) and a sea creature with fish all over
That was a wierd looking ballon
Someone needs to be carefull with the nail gun. This ballon came right over my house.
Two ballons glowing in the dark. You can see the crowd around the ballons as well. They were lighting them up on the golf course that night.
Two more ballons during the night glow. There were 7 ballons total that night.
We had to walk two miles to get to the last GPS site. That was after driving down arroyos for an hour. This is a picture of sand bars about 15 feet above the stream bed. That must have been some flash flood, espeically since the catchment basin for this arroy isn't that big.
This is the slot the flood whould have gone through. It looks like it can hold a lot of water, and from the sandbars it appears there was so much watter going through that some of the water went over the top of the hill to the right of the picture!
The lined up stones are the ruins of a house from the pueblo indians. In the background you can see the cart we were using to pack in the gps equitment (since the roads washed out)
Some pottery fragments from the same site as the previous picture. We found two sites, and the crew that went out to pick up the gps equitment 4 days latter found another site. The dimand design is aperently popular around 1200 AD. (the site has been dated at 900 -1150 ad)
More peices of pottery. There was another piece with red designs on it but I couldn't find it again to take a picture of it.
Another painted piece of pottery. That is how I found it, sticking up like that. We also came across what looked like an old wagon road. There was what looked like a burial along the road. I also found a piece of a clam along there as well. There are no fossil clams in the area, and this site is in the middle of nowhere.
A picture of one of the ballons and one of those parishoots you fly around (can't remember what it is called) It turned out I was still wrong, it wasn't a single ballon, or even two. It turns out there were 40+.
Looking south of my house
Looking north
South again, but looking at a different area.
A couple of shaped ballons, the devil is eclipsing the sun
A better view of the devil (he also has a tail) and a sea creature with fish all over
That was a wierd looking ballon
Someone needs to be carefull with the nail gun. This ballon came right over my house.
Two ballons glowing in the dark. You can see the crowd around the ballons as well. They were lighting them up on the golf course that night.
Two more ballons during the night glow. There were 7 ballons total that night.
We had to walk two miles to get to the last GPS site. That was after driving down arroyos for an hour. This is a picture of sand bars about 15 feet above the stream bed. That must have been some flash flood, espeically since the catchment basin for this arroy isn't that big.
This is the slot the flood whould have gone through. It looks like it can hold a lot of water, and from the sandbars it appears there was so much watter going through that some of the water went over the top of the hill to the right of the picture!
The lined up stones are the ruins of a house from the pueblo indians. In the background you can see the cart we were using to pack in the gps equitment (since the roads washed out)
Some pottery fragments from the same site as the previous picture. We found two sites, and the crew that went out to pick up the gps equitment 4 days latter found another site. The dimand design is aperently popular around 1200 AD. (the site has been dated at 900 -1150 ad)
More peices of pottery. There was another piece with red designs on it but I couldn't find it again to take a picture of it.
Another painted piece of pottery. That is how I found it, sticking up like that. We also came across what looked like an old wagon road. There was what looked like a burial along the road. I also found a piece of a clam along there as well. There are no fossil clams in the area, and this site is in the middle of nowhere.
posted by Milumbar at 2:28 PM
2 Comments:
It is amazing to think that people actually lived in that area for a long time. The indians must have been very resourceful.
There seems to be a lot happening in Soccoro. Hail storms, flash floods, and Balloon convention stuff.
You must be having a good time down there!
Cool balloons. I know that Panguitch has a balloon festival every year that looks a lot like that one. I especially like the one with the nail through it.
That flood must have looked amazing. Too bad nobody saw it.
It's so cool that you can still see the designs on the pottery shards, even after all those centuries. Do you know whether they're Freemont or Anasazi? Regardless, they're a cool find. I've walked all over the deserts of Southern Utah, but have yet to find pottery. I've found a couple arrowheads, though. That's always fun.
So, what's your professional geologists assessment of how the clamshell got there?
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