Joshua Tree National Park is a wonderful place to wander in the desert, whether you are out in the open among the Joshua Trees, or tucked in between granite outcroppings, wandering the washes.
That’s what we did one fall morning, and after poking into many nooks and crannies we happened to stumble across a tiny pictograph site.
After a few miles of wandering, poking around rock piles, and ducking in under various boulder overhangs or into various nooks and crannies, we happened upon a small pictograph and petroglyph site. Since we looked all over the surrounding area I’m fairly sure that there’s no other sites really close to this one, and there was no signs of a habitation site either.
It is not very often that you come across a headless digitate anthropomorph in the backcountry … well, come to think of it, maybe it’s not that unlikely if you do the kind of thing I do!
So … should you be in a situation where this might happen to you, make sure to have your camera on hand so you can take its picture.