The path

My wife Christi wanted to go hiking last week and I wanted to go scouting. She set the time, I set the the place. The was a trail I had spied from the ridge behind the resort that we climbed last week. The trail started in the resort an headed north thru a moble home park and then into the high desert. The total walk was about 3 miles long looping back to our resort enterance.Someone had done a lot of work to this trail, it was lined with stones the entire way. The path followed up a small stream that flowed thru both parks. This stream has been around a long, long time. As we hike up this water way we can see it has cut it's way thru the bedrock to form a 50 to 100 foot deep and 20 to 40 wide canyon aprox. 1 mile long hidden from view. One would never know it was here if you didn't follow the trail. Our hike was at a pretty quick pace, we were on our lunch hour, so we didn't have time to investagate anything in the canyon. I did see a few places I will come back to look at more closely. Most of all two spots peek my interest. #1 was within the narrowest, deepest place in the canyon I found some shallow caves carved by water and time with one that has a crude stone knee wall built at its enterance forming a small dwelling aprox. 6'x8'. The floor looked to be worn. I was a little stunned to find this type of dwelling here fore there are no listings of stone/cliff dwellings in this area. I will go back and get some photos this week.#2 was a trash pile I found near the end of the trail on a side of a hill. Trash is mostly rusted tin cans and small clear and colored glass shards. Looking closer, the cans are found to be the older "Lead Sealed" cans mixed with "church key" tins, all tin oil cans and Pull Top beer cans. I seems to me this was a work camp site that was used many times over the years. It could have been for mining or highway construction or both. Again, I will get some pics later this week. All the Best, Michael & Christi See our other Blog;http://michaelhargisshow.blogspot.com/