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Wow, with that many clues, this shouldn't have been hard to find. Between Price and I-70 I located a bunch of small farming communities including Moore, Castle Dale, and Clawson. So far, so good. In between those last two, there's a coal-fired power generating station run by PacifiCorp known as the Hunter Plant. Aha! I tried Google Street View, and sure enough, this was the very same Power Plant in the picture you posted on the
Where Am I thread.
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I put all those clues together and I got: nothing! In that general location, there are 40 square miles (call it 25,000 acres) of mountains, bluffs, washes, farms, and forests--along with several small towns. I don't know the area at all, so despite all those really great clues, I was still clueless.
I'm an old guy. I might not be up to speed on all the resources and technology that our modern world has to offer, but if I've acquired no other useful skills in this, the Age of the Internet, there's one thing I do know how to do: I know how to use a search engine to find stuff. I opened Google, selected the tab for an image search, paused a moment to flex my fingers, and typed: "
Rainbow petroglyph near Price, Utah." Boom! In less than half a second, I got 99,000 results, including multiple versions of the very thing I was seeking. Captions on the photos in my search results identified your petroglyph as the:
Rochester Rock Art Panel
I thought these were pretty great--especially that pretty rainbow--so I looked them up, and I was pretty disturbed by what I found. This is an excerpt from Wikipedia about these petroglyphs:
"Some are prehistoric rock art, probably of Fremont culture origin. Others are probably modern, depicting horses, for example. And some are perhaps of very recent origin, most likely the work of white explorers, settlers, and/or tourists." Okay, we've all seen people carve their names, but it sounds like the line between "historic" and "prehistoric" is a little muddy here. That's bad enough, but there's more. The article goes on to say:
"There is a great deal of graffiti near the main panel that is obviously of fairly recent origin. The majority of the panel is covered with a dark desert varnish which contrasts nicely with the light sandstone that is exposed when the petroglyphs are pecked into the surface. There are several sections of very light stone in the center of the panel where it appears some of original stone was removed, probably by collectors who were after the figures inscribed there." Yikes! In this case, the vandals actually succeeded in chiseling whole petroglyphs out of the rock art panel. I can't even imagine the nerve of a person who would do a thing like that.
Rick
