Pictograph Hunt

  Last weekend a group of us went on a pictograph tour with the Matarango Museum in Ridgecrest. The pictographs were in two places off of 395 near Little Lake and Olancha. The first site we visited was at Ayers Rock just east of Coso Juntion.

 

The second site was on the east side of 395 in the same area. It was up Walker Creek Road. The pictures are not as good because the pictographs were in the shade. We have to go back sometime in the afternoon.

 

We went up to the end of the road and hiked up the creek to a wonderful waterfall. On the way we passed the ruins of an old pack station that had operated in the 30's.

 

We camped overnight and in the morning we went to Indian Wells Canyon to find some pictographs we had read about. They are marked on the Topo map so we had GPS coordinates. After going in the wrong direction for a mile, because I was reading the GPS receiver wrong, we finally found it up a very steep hill. You can see the image of two people holding hands and a cowboy.