Yesterday I finished GPSing out the Recapture Canyon Trail. It was around 105 degrees in the canyon. It was one hot day. But the upper part of the canyon trail is complete, and I finished the map last night. I hope to have it on my website with in the next week.
Again yesterday I ran into several archaeological sites just like last time. The site I looked at appeared to date back to Pueblo II. This date is a guess based on some ceramic shards that I examined. It is really a very neat area. There is a great article on Recapture Canyon in the latest Blue Mountain Shadow. It talks about the lost Spanish gold, the popcorn size nuggets that the gold mine was pulling out, and the canyons importants as a mail route. It is a great article to read to get a run down on the history of the canyon. Here is a link to find the issue and order it if you want.
http://www.bluemountainshadows.org/
