El Mocho

Wow! This topic certainly had us busy for a bit! Has anyone made any contact with the museum? In a note that will make many people shudder, I like Jason, live down the road from the museum. I remember the days BEFORE the museum, when the area was just Adobe Dam and fenced off for our protection. Being kids, we'd go hang out in the off-limits areas. Visitors to the museum might note it looks like a black building set on top of that floodgate. Because of local ignorance about heiroglyphics vs. petroglyphs, the symbols put into the floodgate earned it the title "The Egyptian Tunnel." It goes right through the dam to the other side. Yes, I have traversed the Egyptian Tunnel. We'd also heard about the petroglyphs, but never found them until a friend and I were climbing straight over the mountain to get to the other side and found them under us. Touching the damaged rock nothing! We clambered up over them. On that hike, we found an angry rattlesnake-- a sign from nature, displeased with our trespass? On subsequent visits, I found a nest of owls up above the outcropping of rocks where the glyphs are, and they defended their nest by divebombing me and smacking me on the back of the head! The second time I went back with a shallow head wound that bled a lot and scared some kids with the gore. After that, I didn't climb on the rocks any more. I also interviewed a member of the staff as part of a writing project I worked on while attending ASU West. There go. I apologize for being a stupid kid at the time but I thought it might some actions in perspective. Maybe the DVRAC could invest in some security owls-- they made a believer of me!