Monkeytown Canyon

On Tuesday afternoon, we drove to the northwest corner of the Baca Float to Monkeytown Canyon. We parked at the southern end and walked out to the cliffs. I snapped this but also took some panoramas that I will post once I stitch them in Photoshop.


From there we drove around and into the canyon. The pasture there is where the working horses (the cowboys' horses) go on "vacation," as A Jane calls it.




Despite all the rain around Homestead and other parts of the ranch we visited, it was pretty dry down in Monkeytown. We found the horses. Two were under a tree by the car. The sorrel was fine, but the brown was lame in his front right foot. Jack said it was badly infected, which is not good news for the horse or the cowboy he's assigned to.




From there, we left the O RO and drove onto a neighboring ranch to get back into the part of Monkeytown pictured at the top. There, A Jane showed us petroglyphs that she said were 1000 years old: