2015 Utah-Arizona Camping Trip

As we drove towards Blanding, Ut, three was a bit of snow falling... perhaps an omen?

Our first stop was a short hike to the Butler Wash ruins; Sue and Keetna are following the well-cairned route.

A closer look at the main Butler Wash ruins

Looks like the old homestead ;-) Surprising that after 30 years of driving around Cedar Mesa, this is our first visit to my name sake ruins.

Sue and Keetna at the Butler Wash ruins overlook

Sue photographing the ruins. Note the dark clouds gracing the sky

Another photo of the ruins, framed by a juniper snag

Paint brush growing out of the slickrock

We drove a ways down Butler Wash, and set up camp not far from Fish Mouth Cave

View of our campsite, from the slick rock above.

Umm, barbecued chicken for dinner

Less than a hundred yards from our camp, Sue found some nice geometric petroglyphs

Petroglyphs, Butler Wash

Overnight, it snowed on us, and showed no signs of letting up, so we retreated to the Sand Island campground outside of Bluff. Here is part of the Sand Island petroglyph panel

More Sand Island petroglyphs

Under somewhat threatening skies, we set out for the Wolfman panel

Some nice wildflowers along the way

There are several small ruins near Wolfman

The final walk to see the Wolfman petroglyphs involves some big steps down the slickrock

Wolfman petroglyphs