Seeing Simply: Private pictographs and a cave with two doors.

Today was a day of finding things, hidden to some degree, but never the less waiting to be found.

The area was Bear mountain, a trail I've done parts of before, but today I wanted to explore some of the side trails; paths I passed and wondered, "Where does that go?"

The first part was a small canyon a half mile south of the trail which is over looked at one point or another, and because of the remoteness I stayed off of serious slopes, but followed a faint trail which led eventually to a cliff face where under an overhang - there were some pictographs. I was by no means the first and though the rocks had been defaced in modern times they did not touch the older pictographs. There were also some anomalous rocks there, chert probably, laid out on a rock, so the site has been picked over and showed no signs of a dwelling, but my on the fly archaeological skills are suspect.

The canyon

The overhang

And then, Oh boy!

Chert?

Not sure - on a loose rock on the floor have seen similar in other sites if it is very old.

Then making my way around the point and across the slope I ended up on the Bear mountain trail where I ascended until I noticed a marker of sorts.
Since this was the day to follow such signs, I took another lesser trail across the slope to a rocky tower that was perhaps 20 feet across.

There were interesting shapes and as I got closer I realized there was a point to this side trail, sometimes they just lead to a private place for lunch or a pee. I am not sure exactly what forces have been involved in the sculpture, wind to some extent as there was a strong breeze coming out from a gap in the rocks.
It was not very deep, maybe ten feet, and dimly lit. There was a turn to the left and an opening at what appeared to be the top of a cliff.