BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//184.154.120.171//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Trails Alliance of Santa Fe X-WR-CALDESC: X-FROM-URL:https://trailsallianceofsantafe.org X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Denver BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Denver BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:MST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:MDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-14191@sfct.org DTSTAMP:20240329T083520Z CATEGORIES: CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Outings and Explorations\nImmerse Yourself in the Canyons\, Cul tural Sites & Rock Art of Southeastern Utah’s Cedar Mesa\n\nWhen\nSunday\, May 8 to Friday\, May 13\, 2022\nPrice: $990 Deposit: $200\n($4 60 tax-deductible)\nLeader: Linda Siegle\nRegistration opens November 15\ , 2021\nTotal Capacity: Ten People\n\n\nGet ready for a five night campin g trip with four days of hikes and explorations at Cedar Mesa\, part of Be ars Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah!\n\nIndian Creek Canyon an d Sixshooter Peaks\n\nLed by our experienced guide\, Linda Siegle\, you’ll be amazed at the prolific rock art that scales the canyon walls. We’ll h ike through the southwest’s most colorful canyons to find hidden ruins. D uring the evenings\, see the Milky Way blazing a trail across a night sky that the ancestors of this ancient place revered.\n\nIt’s a wonderful oppo rtunity to take pictures\, explore a magnificent setting and learn the sto ries told by the land.\nDelicious meals are provided by the leaders and pr epared by all.\nParticipants will meet SFCT staff and trip leader at Kane Gulch Ranger Station in Bears Ears. Transportation in SUVs will be provide d each day from the campground to all the trailheads.\n\nBackground\n\nHou se on Fire ruin at Cedar Mesa\n\nPart of the mission of the Santa Fe Conse rvation Trust is to ignite people’s passion for nature. What better way t o do it than by exploring the numerous canyons and cultural sites at Cedar Mesa at Bears Ears National Monument!\nPeople have been living in the Bea rs Ears region from as far back as 8\,500 years ago. The more permanent r esidents\, the ancestral Puebloans\, began occupying the area at least 2\, 500 years ago\, and vestiges of their kivas\, towers\, dwellings\, pottery and weapons still remain on Cedar Mesa.\n\nNewspaper Rock\n\nThe petrogly phs and pictographs date back 5\,000 years. Some protected walls of the c anyons feature artwork spanning the range of styles and traditions showing every style from the archaic to the more recent rock art left by the Ance stral Puebloans\, Ute\, Navajo and Paiute peoples.\nThe geology of southea stern Utah is outstanding. You will see high mountain tops to broad mesas \, winding canyons\, hoodoos standing guard\, stone arches\, natural bridg es and verdant wetlands. Fossils on Cedar Mesa remind us that 300 million years ago\, this area was once a tropical sea with a thriving coral reef. Cedar Mesa itself was part of a seaside desert where large\, mammal-like reptiles burrowed into the sand to escape the heat at the end of the Perm ian period.\n\nValley of the Gods\n\nFrom earth to sky\, Cedar Mesa lets u s experience what the ancestors revered: an area capable of providing sub sistence for an incredible diversity of plants and animals\, where water c ould be captured and filtered from passing storms. The Navajo refer to su ch places as “Nahodishgish\,” or places to be left alone. What a blessing to be able to visit this amazing place with a guide who has been explorin g the hundreds of canyons for over three decades.\n\nMonarch cave ruin\n\n Linda says our hikes will take us into some enormous alcoves shaped by tow ering sandstone walls. In these canyons are vibrant riparian communities for hundreds of species including golden eagles. And the diverse soils and microclimates of the canyons host a huge variety of vegetation. Keep you r eyes open for bighorn sheep\, cottontails\, foxes\, coyotes\, bobcats\, shrews\, tassel-eared squirrels or at night one of the 15 species of bats. Linda said they once saw bear tracks in South Mule Canyon.\nIn 2016\, Pr esident Barack Obama declared that 1.3 million acres of this amazing terra in would become the Bear’s Ears National Monument. In 2017\, the Trump adm inistration reduced it to just under 202\,000 acres\, opening much of it t o mineral and geothermal leasing. Thankfully in 2021 the Biden administrat ion restored protection for 1.36 million acres. Come with us in May and ex perience the wonders of this landscape and let it ignite your own passion for nature!\nMay is a perfect time for visiting Cedar Mesa. The days are cooler\, and the nights are perfect for bundling up in your sleeping bag. It is generally dry but be prepared for the swings of nature that can occ ur in the high desert.\nItinerary \nOur goal is to hike different canyons each day to view the incredible geology and explore Ancestral Puebloan dwe llings\, looking for rock art everywhere.\nOur day starts early to fix bre akfast and prepare lunches for the day’s hike. We will drive as a group to each day’s trailhead which will take between 30 and 45 minutes. At the e nd of the day\, we will return to camp by approximately 4:00 p.m.\, perhap s a bit later some days. If time allows we may also include a visit to the incredible museum at Edge of the Cedars State Park that features one of t he most impressive collections of Ancestral Puebloan artifacts in the regi on.\nHikes (dependent on weather and group interests/abilities) may includ e:\nProcession Panel – The trail to Procession Panel climbs up slickrock t o the top of Comb Ridge where you enjoy great views and will see over 170 petroglyph figures including the main panel showing a large group of peopl e side by side in a procession. Approximately 3 miles long with 650-foot gain.\nSplit Level Ruins – Split level ruin is a double alcove with habita tion rooms on two levels one above the other. There are numerous metates in large boulders\, sharpening groves and rock art everywhere. Rock art r anges from archaic through pueblo periods.\nSouth Mule Canyon – This hike along a canyon wash and benches showcase rock art and numerous ruins\, she ltered in alcoves and beneath overhangs along the canyon’s walls. The trai l heads up the wide shallow canyon\, with walls composed of alternating la yers of red and white sandstone\, which are initially 80-ft. high but rise to heights of 500-ft. toward the upper reaches\, about 5 miles from the t railhead.\nCitadel Ruin – This 6-mile round trip hike leads to an impressi ve fortification that sits at the end of a peninsula. The only access to t he ruin is via a land bridge that runs the length of the peninsula and req uires some scrambling down a section of slick rock but ultimately leads to the beautifully preserved Citadel Ruin and beautiful vistas all along the way.\nWest Fork of Upper Butler Wash & Cave Tower – This 3 mile hike in U pper Butler Wash\, partially shaded by cottonwood trees\, leads to four se ts of ruins and is lesser known than many other hikes in the region. With ruins along both sides of the wash\, binoculars may be helpful to view acr oss to inaccessible areas.\nThe Cave Tower hike is a short 1 ½ mile trek t o a site where you’ll see the remains of the few towers still standing in all of Cedar Mesa. With no obvious villages or dwellings nearby\, the rea son for these towers\, possibly defensive or lookout posts\, remains uncle ar.\nWolfman Panel – The Wolfman Panel is a petroglyph site that consists of multiple images that were precisely inscribed into the dark patina of t he cliff. There are also a few remaining walls of a cliff dwelling across the wash that are passed on the hike.\nSand Island & Upper Sand Island – P etroglyphs at the site include Archaic\, Ancestral Puebloan\, Navajo\, Ute and perhaps a couple of wooly mammoths and a bison from the Clovis period . This comparison of the wide-ranging styles of images at one location is quite unusual.\nTrip Logistics (please note some changes for 2022)\nTransp ortation: Participants will be responsible for driving their own vehicles (and may want to consider car-pooling with others) to meet the group at th e Kane Gulch Ranger Station in Bears Ears. SFCT staff will meet you there and will lead you approximately 1 mile to a primitive BLM campground.\nGe ar and Food: Participants will need to bring their own tents\, sleeping bags/pads\, day packs\, camp chairs (please see Equipment List) as well as clothing for all weather\, rain gear and broken-in hiking boots. SFCT wi ll provide all food\, water\, cooking equipment\, fuel and first aid suppl ies. The campground is primitive with outdoor latrines and no running wat er – though water is available at the Ranger Station. Participants may wan t to bring a solar shower to clean up after hiking.\nSFCT will try to acco mmodate food preferences and allergies (see Meals) but please inform SFCT in advance of any food restrictions. All participants will share in meal preparation and clean up duties during the week. Participants will prepare and pack their lunches and snacks each day to carry\, along with ample wa ter (3+ liters)\, in their day packs.\nHike Specifics\nThe trip includes i ncredible scenery and to fully enjoy it we will be hiking up to 6 miles ea ch day. Hiking in the desert can be challenging due to sand\, mud\, brush\ , and heat\, and our hikes will be moderately strenuous. The terrain we wi ll cross will include canyon bottoms that may be muddy and thick with brus h\, and sandstone which may have a steep angle or be near edges\, thus req uiring a good sense of balance and minimal fear of heights. Some scramblin g over rocks may be required to reach ruins.\nOur day packs may weigh as m uch as 20 pounds since we each must carry our lunch and snacks for the day \, plenty of water\, and other personal items.\nTo fully enjoy this trip\, participants must understand the physical challenges involved. All partic ipants should be reasonably fit and may want to train for the hikes.\nComp letion of the SFCT Medical Form is required to ensure this is an appropria te trip for you to consider. Please speak to SFCT staff if you have concer ns about physical limitations or hike requirements.\nTrip Reservations\nRe gistration opens for the 2022 trip on Monday Nov 15th and space is limited . To register send an email to beth@sfct.org with your name(s)\, number of trip participants\, and contact information\, then each individual must c omplete and return the Medical Form within 5 days. Once we review your inf ormation you will be notified and a $200 deposit per person is then requir ed to hold your reservation. In addition to your deposit\, upon confirmati on of your reservation all participants will be required to complete and s ubmit the SFCT Trip Participant Release form. The remaining balance of th e trip fee ($790) will be due on April 2 (30 days prior to departure.) Of the full $990\, $460 is tax-deductible. Cancellations made at least 30 day s prior to departure will result in a complete refund. A waiting list wil l be established and you will be notified if space becomes available.\n\nA dditional Information\nPresident Barack Obama’s Proclamation Establishing the 1.3 million acre Bears Ears National Monument in 2016: https://www.bl m.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/documents/files/2016bearsears.prc_.rel_.pdf\nPre sident Donald Trump’s Proclamation Cutting Bears Ears National Monument to 201\,876 acres in 2017: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/ presidential-proclamation-modifying-bears-ears-national-monument/\nBears E ars National Monument Official Website: https://www.blm.gov/visit/bears-e ars-national-monument\nPresident Biden’s Proclamation restoring Bears Ears National Monument Oct 8\, 2021 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/p residential-actions/2021/10/08/a-proclamation-on-bears-ears-national-monum ent/\n\n \n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220508 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220514 GEO:+37.62961;+109.8676 LOCATION:Bears Ears National Monument SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Bears Ears Guided Camping Trip URL:https://trailsallianceofsantafe.org/event/bears-ears-guided-camping-tri p-2/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;https://sfct.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Bear s-Ears-Icon-1-300x150.jpg\;300\;150\,medium\;https://sfct.org/wp-content/u ploads/2020/01/Bears-Ears-Icon-1-300x150.jpg\;300\;150\,large\;https://sfc t.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Bears-Ears-Icon-1-300x150.jpg\;300\;150\, full\;https://sfct.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Bears-Ears-Icon-1-300x15 0.jpg\;300\;150 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
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\nOutings and Explorations
\nWhen
\nSunday\, May 8 to Friday\, May 13\
, 2022
\nPrice: $990 Deposit: $200
\n($460 tax-deducti
ble)
Leader: Linda Siegle
\n
\nTotal Cap
acity: Ten People
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Get ready for a five night camping trip with four days of hikes and explorations at Ceda r Mesa\, part of Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah!
\n \nLed by our experienced guide\, Linda Siegle\, you’ll b e amazed at the prolific rock art that scales the canyon walls. We’ll hik e through the southwest’s most colorful canyons to find hidden ruins. Dur ing the evenings\, see the Milky Way blazing a trail across a night sky th at the ancestors of this ancient place revered.
\nBackground
\n \nPart of the mission of the Santa Fe Conservation Trust is to ignite people’s passion for nature. What better way to do it than by exploring the numerous canyons and cultural sites at Cedar Mesa a t Bears Ears National Monument!
\nPeople have been living in the Bea rs Ears region from as far back as 8\,500 years ago. The more permanent r esidents\, the ancestral Puebloans\, began occupying the area at least 2\, 500 years ago\, and vestiges of their kivas\, towers\, dwellings\, pottery and weapons still remain on Cedar Mesa.
\n \nThe pet roglyphs and pictographs date back 5\,000 years. Some protected walls of the canyons feature artwork spanning the range of styles and traditions sh owing every style from the archaic to the more recent rock art left by the Ancestral Puebloans\, Ute\, Navajo and Paiute peoples.
\nThe geolog y of southeastern Utah is outstanding. You will see high mountain tops to broad mesas\, winding canyons\, hoodoos standing guard\, stone arches\, n atural bridges and verdant wetlands. Fossils on Cedar Mesa remind us that 300 million years ago\, this area was once a tropical sea with a thriving coral reef. Cedar Mesa itself was part of a seaside desert where large\, mammal-like reptiles burrowed into the sand to escape the heat at the end of the Permian period.
\n \nFrom earth to sky\, Cedar Mesa lets us experience what the ancestors revered: an area capable of providing subsistence for an incredible diversity of plants and animals\, where water could be captured and filtered from passing storms. The Navajo refer to such places as “Nahodishgish\,” or places to be left alone. What a blessing to be able to visit this amazing place with a gui de who has been exploring the hundreds of canyons for over three decades.< /p>\n
\nLinda says our hikes will take us into some e normous alcoves shaped by towering sandstone walls. In these canyons are vibrant riparian communities for hundreds of species including golden eagl es. And the diverse soils and microclimates of the canyons host a huge var iety of vegetation. Keep your eyes open for bighorn sheep\, cottontails\, foxes\, coyotes\, bobcats\, shrews\, tassel-eared squirrels or at night o ne of the 15 species of bats. Linda said they once saw bear tracks in Sou th Mule Canyon.
\nIn 2016\, President Barack Obama declared that 1.3 million acres of this amazing terrain would become the Bear’s Ears Nation al Monument. In 2017\, the Trump administration reduced it to just under 2 02\,000 acres\, opening much of it to mineral and geothermal leasing. Than kfully in 2021 the Biden administration restored protection for 1.36 milli on acres. Come with us in May and experience the wonders of this landscape and let it ignite your own passion for nature!
\nMay is a perfect t ime for visiting Cedar Mesa. The days are cooler\, and the nights are per fect for bundling up in your sleeping bag. It is generally dry but be pre pared for the swings of nature that can occur in the high desert.
\nItinerary
\nOur goal is to hike different canyons each day to view the incredible g eology and explore Ancestral Puebloan dwellings\, looking for rock art eve rywhere.
\nOur day starts early to fix breakfast and prepare lunches for the day’s hike. We will drive as a group to each day’s trailhead whic h will take between 30 and 45 minutes. At the end of the day\, we will re turn to camp by approximately 4:00 p.m.\, perhaps a bit later some days. I f time allows we may also include a visit to the incredible museum at Edge of the Cedars State Park that features one of the most impressive collect ions of Ancestral Puebloan artifacts in the region.
\nHikes (dependent on weather and group interests/abilities) may include:
\nProcession Panel – The trail to Procession Panel climbs up slickrock to the top of Comb Ridge where you e njoy great views and will see over 170 petroglyph figures including the ma in panel showing a large group of people side by side in a procession. Ap proximately 3 miles long with 650-foot gain.
\nSplit Level R uins – Split level ruin is a double alcove with habitation rooms on two levels one above the other. There are numerous metates in large bo ulders\, sharpening groves and rock art everywhere. Rock art ranges from archaic through pueblo periods.
\nSouth Mule Canyon – This hike along a canyon wash and benches showcase roc k art and numerous ruins\, sheltered in alcoves and beneath overhangs alon g the canyon’s walls. The trail heads up the wide shallow canyon\, with wa lls composed of alternating layers of red and white sandstone\, which are initially 80-ft. high but rise to heights of 500-ft. toward the upper reac hes\, about 5 miles from the trailhead.
\nCitadel Ruin – This 6-mile round trip hike leads to an impressive fortification that sits at the end of a peninsula. The only access to the ruin is via a land bridge that runs the length of the peninsula and requir es some scrambling down a section of slick rock but ultimately leads to th e beautifully preserved Citadel Ruin and beautiful vistas all along the wa y.
\nWest Fork of Upper Butler Wash & Cave Tower
T he Cave Tower hike is a short 1 ½ mile trek to a site where you’ll see the remains of the few towers still standing in all of Cedar Mesa. With no o bvious villages or dwellings nearby\, the reason for these towers\, possib ly defensive or lookout posts\, remains unclear.
\nWolfman P anel – The Wolfman Panel is a petroglyph site th at consists of multiple images that were precisely inscribed into the dark patina of the cliff. There are also a few remaining walls of a cliff dwel ling across the wash that are passed on the hike.
\nSand Isl and & Upper Sand Island – Petroglyphs at the site include Archaic \, Ancestral Puebloan\, Navajo\, Ute and perhaps a couple of wooly mammoth s and a bison from the Clovis period. This comparison of the wide-ranging styles of images at one location is quite unusual.
\nTrip Lo gistics (please note some changes for 2022)
\nTransportation: Participants will be re sponsible for driving their own vehicles (and may want to consider car-poo ling with others) to meet the group at the Kane Gulch Ranger Station in Be ars Ears. SFCT staff will meet you there and will lead you approximately 1 mile to a primitive BLM campground.
\nGear and Food: Participants will need to bring their own tents\, sleeping bags/pads\, day packs\, camp chairs (please see Equipment List) as well as clothing for all weather\, rain gear and broken-in h iking boots. SFCT will provide all food\, water\, cooking equipment\, fue l and first aid supplies. The campground is primitive with outdoor latrin es and no running water – though water is available at the Ranger Station. Participants may want to bring a solar shower to clean up after hiking. p>\n
SFCT will try to accommodate food preferences and allergies (see Meals) but ple ase inform SFCT in advance of any food restrictions. All participants wil l share in meal preparation and clean up duties during the week. Participa nts will prepare and pack their lunches and snacks each day to carry\, alo ng with ample water (3+ liters)\, in their day packs.
\nHike Specifics
\nThe trip includes incredible scenery and to fu lly enjoy it we will be hiking up to 6 miles each day. Hiking in the deser t can be challenging due to sand\, mud\, brush\, and heat\, and our hikes will be moderately strenuous. The terrain we will cross will include canyo n bottoms that may be muddy and thick with brush\, and sandstone which may have a steep angle or be near edges\, thus requiring a good sense of bala nce and minimal fear of heights. Some scrambling over rocks may be require d to reach ruins.
\nOur day packs may weigh as much as 20 pounds sin ce we each must carry our lunch and snacks for the day\, plenty of water\, and other personal items.
\nTo fully enjoy this trip\, participants must understand the physical challenges involved. All participants should be reasonably fit and may want to train for the hikes.
\nCompletion of the SFCT Medical Form is required to ensure thi s is an appropriate trip for you to consider. Please speak to SFCT staff i f you have concerns about physical limitations or hike requirements.
\nTrip Reservations
\nRegistration opens for the 2
022 trip on Monday Nov 15th and space is limited. To register send an emai
l to beth@sfct.org with your name(s)\, number of trip part
icipants\, and contact information\, then each individual must complete an
d return the Medical Form within 5 days. Once we re
view your information you will be notified and a $200 deposit per person i
s then required to hold your reservation. In addition to your deposit\, up
on confirmation of your reservation all participants will be required to c
omplete and submit the
Additional Information
\nPresident Barack Obama’s Proclamation Establishing the 1.3 million acre Bears Ears National Monument in 2016: https://www.blm.gov/sites/ blm.gov/files/documents/files/2016bearsears.prc_.rel_.pdf
\nPres ident Donald Trump’s Proclamation Cutting Bears Ears National Monument to 201\,876 acres in 2017: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation -modifying-bears-ears-national-monument/
\nBears Ears National M onument Official Website: https://www.blm.gov/visit/bears-ears-national-monument a>
\nPresident Biden’s Proclamation restoring Bears Ears National Mo nument Oct 8\, 2021 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room /presidential-actions/2021/10/08/a-proclamation-on-bears-ears-national-mon ument/
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