The Great Hunt Panel
The Great Hunt Panel is located in Cottonwood Canyon, a little over a mile from where Cottonwood Canyon Road splits from Nine Mile Canyon Road. There is a well-marked, fenced parking area at the trailhead. The trail is flat and a couple hundred yards at most. The name refers to a single panel, but there are a lot of petroglyphs and pictographs in the immediate area.
Coordinates to the parking area:
UTM: 574051, 4403582
Decimal Degrees: 39.77896, -110.13527
Lat/Long: 39º 46' 44.25", -110º 08' 6.97"
Maps:
1:100,000 Price
1:24,000 Cowboy Bench
This one is about 450 feet further into the canyon on the right-hand side of the road and about 15 feet off the ground.
Castleton v.1, p.89; Schaafsma p.39; Spangler p. 80.
Sean and I have spent a great deal of time debating what these pictographs represent. My guess is that the one on the left is a partial lunar eclipse. Lunar eclipses often make the moon look red. The middle one is a partial solar eclipse, and the one on the right represents an annular eclipse. The reason for my guess is Sean and I took photos of the annular eclipse in central Utah several months before we took these, and as soon as I saw this pictograph, that was my immediate thought.
Castleton v.1, p.89.
Schaafsma wrote this panel is probably in Nine Mile Canyon. Schaafsma p.36
Castleton v.1, p.88; Patterson p. 137; Schaafsma p. 37; Slifer p. 185; Spangler p. 76.