We traveled to Bloody Basin to see the great Perry Mesa indian ruins. This time around, we didn't have to hike too far to find a good camping spot close to the edge of a beautiful green canyon. The Scouts all tried Kippered Fish and SPAM for the first time, with some Vienna Sausages thrown in for good measure. They all seemed to like them, which is good, because SPAM is a Scout staple food!
After dinner we ventured out in the light of the full moon to get a closer look at the ruins, and did some scorpion hunting along the way - those black lights really light up the scorpions at night! We found a tarantula along the trail, in addition to the many we saw on the way in that afternoon. The ruins are what is left of a 150 room Perry Mesa Tradition city. The ruins were beautiful in the moonlight, and later we settled into bed under a cloudless, starlit sky.
The next morning we climbed around the cliffs and saw more petroglyphs that we could count! The detail was amazing, and the artifacts we found were incredible. It's nice to go somewhere the whole world hasn't been, as almost everything was still intact. The pictures don't do it justice, as only a few of the many ancient drawings are shown here.
The Scouts got a lesson on eating cactus fruit, and they all ate until their chins were dripping purple cactus juice. We even fed some spiders that morning, all in the name of the real Discovery Channel!
Heading out
Livin on the edge
Beautiful sunset
One of the many tarantulas we encountered
View from camp
Bro. Stine scouts the area in the morning
Breakfast is served
Learning that cactus fruit is tasty
The Ruins
The Petroglyphs
The Real Discovery Channel - one of the few spider that got a free tasty meal, courtesy of The Yetis! Click the link below the picture to be taken to cool video of this spider in action.
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