Utah - Comb Wash, Bluff, Edge of the Cedars Museum

[ckkone]

Took a trip with the Moody family a few weeks ago down south, here are some pics...

Base camp down Comb Wash Rd.

Our camping neighbors had horses, this was big hit with the kids.

Kids being kids..

My girls

Roger's epic find... Anasazi knife blade

Room filled with amazing Anasazi pottery at Edge of the Cedars

Pottery fragments

Mia and Liv, they had a great time

Photog taking a pic of a photog

One of the highlights of the trip was listening to Craig Childs speak...

 

[mph]

That's a very special Utah place...Glad you had fun!

 

[cnynrat]

Edge of the Cedars is a very cool museum. When we were there they had an exhibit in front of a pot that a couple had found. They let the museum know, and were invited to participate in the excavation. This has now become our dream; to find the Cnynrat pot as it were.

Very jealous that you got the hear Craig Childs - he is a favorite of mine.

 

[Moody]

Nice Chris! I will have to put a few of my mediocre photos up here. I took far less than I normally do on any given trip...

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Would love to hear Craig Childs speak, I've enjoyed many of his works. We were in that same area a few weekends back, never enough time to see it all. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Scott Brady]

Nice images - Utah is such a magical place.

 

[1leglance]

I really need to spend more time in Utah, these trip reports always make me start looking at the calendar for the next school break to drag the family north.

Thanks for posting and for getting the kids out there, it would be great to be a fly on the wall as they tell their schoolmates about trips like this.

 

[Moody]

Here are a couple from this trip with Chris.

Handle from a pot:

Kids, no matter where they are from...like pottery making demonstrations

Dine' girls:

Willie, the potter:

Chris:

Twin Rocks Cafe (served us despite our 'weathered' status)

 

[Moody]

I have traveled to various places in Mexico, Honduras, the Cayman Islands, and other amazing locales during the past year, but this knife was by far the most intriguing experience I have had.

I imagined the owner living in this land, making a life for themselves, feeling the desert heat, the cold of the winter, the howling winds, and the faucet like rain washing away the dust built up from the weeks before. I imagine the owner thanking the gods for the rain to quench their thirst, to water their crops, and to bring more life to the plants and animals in the region. I can imagine the owner sitting down to clean a rabbit, cooking their food over an open fire and using the knife to cut pieces off a carcass. I can imagine this knife accompanying the owner throughout the same trials of life I have had…sadness, happiness, birth, life, and death. For some strange reason, I felt connected to this knife and its owner. Although we never met, I know we somehow understand each other.

I can imagine the owner sitting, setting the knife down and walking away...forgetting about it until a bald history teacher a thousand years later finds it peeking out of the sand…

Later that night, even though I was crusty and stinky from camping...I was able to get my tattered copy of House of Rain signed by Craig Childs, and get a photo
(Thanks Chris!):

 

[mph]

that place is definitely an outdoor museum...

 

[Bugspray]

I really love that area soooo much history there.
I think 800 years ago there were probably more people living in that area than there are now.

 

[Pskhaat]

Bluff is cool. It could be another Moab, but let's be glad it isn't.

 

[ckkone]

Bluff is cool. It could be another Moab, but let's be glad it isn't.

Amen!

Great pics Roger...we will be back there soon :wings:

 

[Moody]

That place would be horribly destroyed with the traffic Moab receives.