Monday, November 03, 2025

A Quick Displacement and Magic Circle Rock Art

Last night, there was some kind of a band or at least a bunch of high power sound equipment playing crappy music. I don't know if it was some kind of public event, but I was surprised since it's in the middle of BLM land. 

Regardless, my sound canceling headphones were used and all was fine. However today after lunch, I decided to do a quick displacement further away from the noise source whatever it was. 




In the late afternoon, I rode Yagi to the nearby BLM area Known as the Magic Circle.  Perusing satellite/posted imagery shown by Google had drawn my attention to some rock art in this area. 

The area in question, is also a BLM sanctioned clothing optional camping area.

As I rode to the rock art, stopping frequently to consult Google maps since there was no routing information, I eventually found the rock art sites. 

Yes, there were people enjoying the clothing optional status of the place, they would wave as I rode by so it was all good. 

Sadly, the first site's rock art had been destroyed to the point the below formations were not recognizable. Some idiot had actually driven their vehicle through it.  My guess is some fool that couldn't plan his way out of a paper bag had arrived in the dark and destroyed the rock art while parking is rig.


Fortunately, the next side was pretty intact:



Thunderbird 

Magic Circle Labyrinth


Kokopelli Figure 

Om Symbol 

Bear Prints?


Further on from the above site, I'd seen a Ying and Yang symbol:






Finally, there was another rock art site.  Not as cool or artsy as the first two sites.


The circle of rocks was labeled as the Magic Circle, here's the various items within the circle:
Compass Rose



A couple more I didn't include the first time:



As the sun was setting, I made it back to camp for a cloudless sky sunset pictures:





6 comments:

Coop a.k.a. Coopdway said...

I’ve not seen that variation of art before. Using rocks painted white for lettters shows up on hillsides.

redlegsrides said...

Coop, the rocks were chunks of white quartz I believe, not painted. I've seen the letters(s) on hillsides as well....

Oz said...

I had not heard of the Circle Rock Art - those are so interesting! Thanks

redlegsrides said...

You're welcome, Oz

SonjaM said...

Love the rock art, especially the Kokopelli. I bought a little talisman of this mystical creature back in 2001, which is still sitting on my bookshelf.

redlegsrides said...

The kokopelli is indeed a popular image of the Southwest...thanks for commenting, SonjaM.