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Stories on Stone: Rock Art from the Pahranagat Trail II

Stories on Stone: Rock Art from the Pahranagat Trail II

In Search of the Pahranagat Man | Wednesday – Sunday, January 15-19, 2025

This week I took Thursday and Friday off from work so I could spend another extended weekend searching for petroglyphs with Jared around the Pahranagat Valley, which is sandwiched between the fringes of the Mojave Desert and Great Basin Desert in southern Nevada. It’s been a bit cold in the Grand Valley lately and I was looking forward to escaping into the the milder temperatures found at this edge of the Mojave Desert for a few days. I left from work on Wednesday afternoon, drove across Utah to St. George, and grabbed a late dinner in town before crossing over the state line into Arizona to find a place to spend the night where Jared could meet up with me later. Jared arrived sometime shortly after midnight but I was sound asleep and wouldn’t catch up with him until the morning. We both got up early on Thursday to finish the drive into Nevada in the dark and then watched the sun come up as we followed the Muddy River through the Moapa Valley.

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Memorial Day Weekend Along the Black Canyon

Memorial Day Weekend | Friday – Sunday, May 24-26, 2024

This Memorial Day Weekend I decided to stay a little closer to home so I could spend some time along the Gunnison River in both the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area and the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. Since it’s getting to be that time of the year when the desert is starting to get a little too warm for me and there is still too much snow up in the high country, luckily this area along the rim of the Black Canyon is in-between and usually just right at this time of the year.

Valley of Shining Water: Along the Pahranagat Trail

Rock Art of the Pahranagat Valley: In Search of the Pahranagat Man
Thursday – Sunday, January 12-15, 2023

This holiday weekend I took an extra day off from work on Friday so I could spend four days hiking, camping and searching for petroglyphs in the warmer temperatures of the Pahranagat Valley in Nevada, which straddles the transition zone between the Mojave and Great Basin Deserts. But just like during my recent New Years weekend, the weather would have other plans for me this weekend. I left from work on Thursday afternoon and made my way down to St. George where I grabbed a late dinner and then found a spot to camp just over the state line in Arizona. Jared also drove down that evening after work and joined up with me at my campsite after I had already fallen asleep. In the morning we both got up just before sunrise and headed further southwest to the Moapa Valley where we followed the Muddy River to the mouth of Pahranagat Wash and went on our first hike into the narrows of Arrow Canyon.

Mojave National Preserve

Tour of the Deserts | Honeymoon Adventure
Friday – Sunday, March 10-12, 2017

After leaving Death Valley on Friday afternoon we headed south to the end (the beginning for us) of the Mojave Road, which starts just outside of the Mojave National Preserve near Camp Cady, which isn’t too far off of I-15 east of Barstow. I had planned and hoped to drive the entire Mojave Road this trip, but again, thanks to the recent rains, that would prove to be impossible. By the end of the weekend we would end up driving most of the road in different segments, but not the entire route. That just means I will have to plan another trip here in the future!

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Stories on Stone: Rock Art from the Pahranagat Trail II

Memorial Day Weekend Along the Black Canyon

Valley of Shining Water: Along the Pahranagat Trail

Mojave National Preserve