April and i have been all over the place looking at petroglyphs in different parts
of well heck different parts of the world and i have never seen this many petroglyphs on one hike
Hey you guys! Thanks for joining us on another journey. Today we're exploring petroglyphs at
McConkie Ranch in Vernal, Utah this is April and I'm Wayne, we do a video every Thursday so if
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and enjoy the journey! so this trail is more like a boulder hopping trail
than it is a leisure walk it's only about a mile i guess AllTrails says it's 0.8 but it
feels longer than that just because you're moving so slow i guess so you're probably wondering why
it's so hazy out there's a bunch of forest fires around Colorado and Utah and it's really hard
to hike when you can't breathe because of all the smoke and the heat so as you can see this trail is
i would consider to be moderate to difficult for the average person i would highly suggest hiking
boots that way you grip a little bit better tennis shoes just do not grip to the surfaces out here
what's so cool is you can get so close to these petroglyphs but don't touch them the oils in
your skin will mess them up and obviously stay on the trail here this is a desert it takes a
long time for the microscopic organisms and the plants to grow did you see this one right here
where right here see it nope right here oh it's just like a weird triangle yeah shape type thing
well these have been beat in the sun too yeah
these are really hard to see yeah these are really hard to see so let's go back this way go up to the
other spot where you go to the right oh that's nice
check this one out guys that was again kind of harder to see
yeah these are these are easier to see over here and then there's a little another little
animal right here you can see oh yeah yeah it's definitely see this one as well squiggly snakes
and then the person there the deer the antelope well what you got to think is how old this is it
says it's anywhere from 180 to 1200 a.d could be from that era that's you know over 2000 years old
yeah that's crazy this looks like a calendar or something a calendar you know how they would use
the the dial and then almost that shading you wonder if they used it to tell time
or if it meant something else part of the trail what what you got the easy path yeah
i wanted some action that's cool how this granite just slid right away and it did you see this one
which one on the side of this chunk so you wonder how long this chunk has been here do you
see the indentation oh yeah huh so that makes you wonder how long that big look at this whole chunk
yeah get this guy no i didn't i wonder what these this definitely looks like something that they've
marked them to probably record them and oh wow this one's like the best artwork of them all so far
circle head legs you ever tried to draw something on a rock with a rock you know etch something into
a rock no i've never tried to do that that's crazy i think this is the most petroglyphs
i've ever seen on a hike this dry canyon has the most petroglyphs that are easily accessible yeah
anywhere the most petroglyphs that are the most easily accessible now we hit some amazing
petroglyphs this thing looks almost egyptian over here because they're not just in here yeah there's
more as you continue down right right i mean we've seen some petroglyphs but we've never seen this
amount oh yeah and they're very detailed and huge the headdresses and oh wow with the coloration
oh wow yeah that's cool so they found some red rock oh there's a guy there's a little face right
there see that way there's a little doohickey there and those kind of look like smiley faces
and then there's this dude there and whatever that is right there
i think that looks like a little face it almost looks like an alien head yeah
as you can tell we know a lot about petroglyphs we're like professional petroglyph readers wonder
if they had the brain levels of intelligence not that i'm trying to insult them but you know
we've evolved as humans if they could even wrap their mind around well i'm sure they left
maybe not thousands of years they probably planned it for future generations i mean they tell stories
yes but i just wonder if like how much they they knew about time and could they could their
brains conceive of thousands of years. where are we at April outer space Wayne for real
aliens and all? it feels like some of this land we've been you know driving through and stuff
especially with this nasty smoke yeah right forest fires wreaking havoc. we're uh McConkie Ranch petroglyphs
outside of Vernal Utah yeah so if you take the family and you want to go check out Dinosaur
National Monument see the card above definitely suggest putting this one on the list it's on a
private ranch they charge you uh just a five dollar donation per group to come check this
out so bring some cash. We want to thank you guys for watching our video all the way to the end. If
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