Faint Traces of Strangeness, Jan 13, 2008

Continuing your Club's soon-to-be-lavishly-funded study "Ethnohistorical Texts of Moises' Reef," Lucy and Bret pushed south from Devil Rock. Lucy, obeying a directional arrow glyph, scrambled up a tight ramp to nowhere. The arrow (meta-rockart) apparently points a lightly pecked dog-like glyph (lower left, second photo) which is only visible from within the narrow rocky slot. Faint trace of strangeness #1. This area has about four log-ladders set up in locations exposed to weather such that the day must have been in recent decades. Two ladders access cracks that get up to high points, but nothing else, suggesting maniacal search or obsessive climbing. More than a mile from a road, further than climbers tend to carry climbing gear. The cracks were not classic routes. Faint trace of strangeness #2. Several cliff-faces had spidery, pencil-wide, 1/32" deep tracks meandering fluidly like braided streamchannels downwards. Obviously (if you were me, not if you were Lucy) engraved in a flash by lightning zipping along the cliff-face following runnels of rainwater. All evidence (we await a change in government for lucrative contracts to expand the database) points to sudden heating of wet sandstone just below those runnels causing 1/32" defoliation. Faint trace of strangeness #3.