In Europe, the Roman Empire was collapsing. Christianity was on the rise. Islam was yet to be born. And here in the American Southwest, on the walls of a small dome cave, about 1,600 years ago, a group of ancestral Pueblo people, or Anasazi, were telling their own story in paintings.
Indian Canyon Cave is just a few miles from my own home at Angel Canyon in Southern Utah, near Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. You need a four-wheel-drive vehicle to make your way along the sandy trail that takes you behind the Coral Pink Sand Dunes:
And then onto a very narrow, winding sandy trail that emerges where two canyons come together. We’ll be going down the south fork:
Faces from the Past
By Michael Mountain,
The Indian Canyon Pictographs – Sunday Hike
By Michael Mountain
In Europe, the Roman Empire was collapsing. Christianity was on the rise. Islam was yet to be born. And here in the American Southwest, on the walls of a small dome cave, about 1,600 years ago, a group of ancestral Pueblo people, or Anasazi, were telling their own story in paintings.
Indian Canyon Cave is just a few miles from my own home at Angel Canyon in Southern Utah, near Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. You need a four-wheel-drive vehicle to make your way along the sandy trail that takes you behind the Coral Pink Sand Dunes:
And then onto a very narrow, winding sandy trail that emerges where two canyons come together. We’ll be going down the south fork:
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