Round Trip Distance: 200 feet
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 6060 - 6065 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 15 mins.
Trailhead: 37.71287, -111.63034
Fee: none
Attractions: pictographs
Alvey Wash Site 2 is a little over a quarter mile on up the road from Alvey Site 1 south of Escalante, Utah. The site includes a small rock shelter and a few pictographs.
The rock shelter and some of the pictographs are visible from the road. It only takes about 15 minutes of your time to see them while in the area already.
The largest of the images is a rayed circle that is on the ceiling of the overhang. Some of the crossing lines form a grid within the circle. The lower part of the circle has a double arc.
This is another one of the images present.
This image is very similar to the first. It seems to duplicate the part of that image where there was an extra arc to the circle.
There are a few other indeterminable pictographs in the shelter besides what we have shown above but that is pretty much all that is there to see.
For us, it was hard to tell what the original meaning of the pictographs may have been. They seem to have been intending to convey some specific meaning that others at the time would have been able to readily understand. If you would like to see them for yourself then all you have to do is 'Take a hike'.
