[pct-l] Thunder Storms
Brandon McGinnity
bmcginnity at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 17:46:23 CST 2011
Well, I'm sure both the Natives and hikers alike have used the shelter.
Seems reasonable. Good shelter is good shelter, eh?
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Timothy Nye <timpnye at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brick
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> Although the WP guide refers to hikers using that rock for shelter I'm
>> personally convinced that the smoke stains on the boulder are from Indian
>> hunting encampments. When I went through there there in 2002, I noticed
>> several pieces of obsidian which obviously were transported to the site;
>> including one on the bottem of the 18" trail rut that had been worn opaque
>> on the top from countless shoe and boot footfalls. They all had been worked
>> to one degree or another. My guess was that the WP was attempting to shield
>> a potential archeological site if they in fact were aware of the same
>> things..
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