Shaman Panel

 This trip is to see the Shamans panel pictograph on the north rim of the grand canyon generally south of the Pipe Springs National monument. It is the primary example of a style pictograph called "Grand Canyon Polychrome" Found only in this area and nowhere else. If is difficult to get to without  several proper 4X4's. First there is 32 miles of good dirt road, then 8 miles of potentially muddy single track through tall weeds, then 8 more miles of dirt trail that hasn't been maintained in 25 years. 

When you get to the trailhead the hike is down into this basin to the dry wash you can see in the distance. It is 3.5 miles and 1700 feet down. That doesn't sound especially difficult, but it was! There is no developed trail.

Part way down there was a rock with a roll of old barbed wire hanging on.

There is a large flat bench called the "Esplanade" before the final drop into the wash. All the pictographs of the Grand Canyon Polychrome style are around the esplanade. You can google it and find papers on the subject.

First view of the panel from the wash. It is up on a ledge you have to scramble up to.

On the scramble up, on the right end of the ledge, was a sharpening grove stone.

From the wash showing the ledge you have to scramble up.

Looking back down from near the parking lot.

Driving out,  a rain storm ahead caused some excitement when we came to deep ruts filled with water and no way to avoid them. We started the trip from a hotel in Kanab right after breakfast but got back well after dark. We didn't stop much either. Its about 70 miles from Kanab, the closest town with nice hotels.