the end of the line.

to end our trip we hiked the PIONEER NAMES trail. there was a moment where, in the sand, there were bunny tracks crossing with lizard tracks crossing with bird foot prints. it was lovely.

the pioneer names trail marks where pioneers wrote their names in axle grease:

next it was on to the parowan gap petroglyphs. not only are there ancient rock carvings, a sort of meeting place where different tribes carved for generations, but there's also a sort of marker for the summer solstice to come through the rock.

i think the big one on this looks like a giant zipper:

and these were my favorite, the ram/antelope/big horn sheep:

after all of this, "finishing utah," we were noticeably smeepums, and headed home to salt lake city.