Weekend of mischief in DV

[Daymoth]

On our first day we met a desert rat gentleman on our same trailhead heading up certain benchmark on the black mountains. Was it any of you by any chance?

Having been up there twice now I shared my beta. In exchange he shared with me some petroglyph locations and gave me his map he used the day before.

OH BOY OH BOY FINALLY MY FIRST DEATH VALLEY GLYPHS.

So all my other half day options were bumped into the "next time" category and this mans map went to the top of the to do list. 
We half half a day to explore before the long boring drive home so off we went.

Well you all know this place. Its no secret. Its well documented. Yet I didnt know about it, I didnt know it was possible to find these without a 4x4, and it was super exciting and special to me and I loved it and I cant wait to find more.


All interpretations here are entirely my wild imagination and not an attempt to trump or define any actual Shoshone meanings. 

A sheep, a spring, a shaman and a medicine wheel.



This was one of my favourite. A huge map!!! I wish I could descipher it, I think the circles are springs and the lines are trails. If anyone has desciphered it i would love to know.



Counting something? There is something in the center I cant see well.


Beware the are snakes in the spring. 



This one I cant barely make out. 


Cant see this one either



There where more inscriptions both historic and prehistoric.

What a delight. Thankyou sir for sharing this special place. 

Back home. Now start planing our next trip. Im studying roads. (If anyone has explored Gold Butte in an SUV I would love some intel).