When I was here in Telluride during the financial crisis in September 2008, I began a carving a panel at about 9000 feet above sea level. It is located several switchbacks up the road from the patron’s ranch house on a sheep trail. It took a week of hiking to find two suitable sites to make petroglyphs. In 2008 I began work on the more remote and less “architecturally” significant panel. I saved the the more substantial site until I had more time to work, like now.
The panel I began in 2008 featured primarily technological motifs: airplanes, hot air baloons, helicopter, space shuttle (as well as a large bear since this is the Hidden Bear Ranch). Upon reflection it felt silly not to depict local subjects like cattle ranching as well as local fauna and game, so this year have commenced the Second Site featuring cowboys, deer, elk, pickups, campers, and cattle. The images ate the Second Site are also geared to the patron specifically: their pickup, their camper, their six wheeler.
New carving at the Second Site:
Carving from 2008 as I found it in 2010:
