Giant face monument?

[coyote3]

Is this a face or what you all think.. Out in the middle of the Wyoming desert country...

 

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[Shortstack]

At first, it looks like someone, wearing a helmet, standing looking straight to the left. BUT, then,if you shift you focus a little, it looks like a prairie dog standing while looking up and to the right.

There are several shapes scattered all over the figure and one looks like it could be either a heart or a "V".

Slowly walk around this figure and take plenty of photos that you can study later. Use the highest resolution allowed by your camera, too.

 

[Chisos]

Yes, it does and the back, from the neck down looks worked. Don't know what it means, but I bet you figure it out. Treasure, outlaw trail marker Good luck.

 

[coyote3]

Yes, it does and the back, from the neck down looks worked. Don't know what it means, but I bet you figure it out. Treasure, outlaw trail marker Good luck.

I dont know. Not much sign of anything else around. What would a praire dog mean if it was that?

 

[Shortstack]

A prairie dog could mean the next marker is at ground level or even partially IN the ground. But this one is looking upward, so perhaps on the top of a bank or cliff. There are several symbols scratched onto the surface of this stone. Study and record them and their layout. That looks like the head of a white dog in the background on the left, laying on the bank.

You should study all info you can on symbols, signs, and trail markers. Read everything you can find in this section that has been written by Old Dog, TertiaryJim, Desertmoons,Tesorodog, MDog, dsty, Rockhopper2, and many others...even a poster named rangler. You will have to do a lot of learning and just ask for help and opinions.

 

[hadji009]

have any more photos from other sides?

 

[dsty]

My thoughts are the larger the monument the greater the distance, how far would it be to where there is ground suitable for prairie dogs, perhaps on top of a mesa in the direction the head is looking

 

[coyote3]

I have no other pictures from other directions. I will try and get out there this weekend and do some more looking and take some more pictures. The front or the face looking side looks like it was tooled to make a face. The eyes are closed so that usually means something is close. Right? Will get more picts and post them next week.

 

[dsty]

coyote3, it could mean something hidden, not in view, don't look this way, reverse, just a thought , good luck

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

How about just mother nature at work. I have traveled and camped in every state west of Mississippi, camped for weeks at a time in Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico Montana, Idaho, Oregon, California and Neveda, seen thousands of rock formations that look like something but all are just mother nature at work not the hand of man. Seen some that were manmade, but thousands that just made by nature, it is mans imagination that mate it into something they recognized.

 

[desertmoons]

How about just mother nature at work.

Well there surely is a lot of that going around, much to our mind's and eye's delight!

But this particular rock looks partially worked and carved to me. And the context is suggestive. Coyote... you will want to get good pics of that background area behind the trail marker too. Also, curious if it seems to be aligned north/south. That is if you turned left or right at that marker, would you be heading north or south. If so, you might consider both directions, but head south for a bit.

 

[Shortstack]

Well there surely is a lot of that going around, much to our mind's and eye's delight!

But this particular rock looks partially worked and carved to me. And the context is suggestive. Coyote... you will want to get good pics of that background area behind the trail marker too. Also, curious if it seems to be aligned north/south. That is if you turned left or right at that marker, would you be heading north or south. If so, you might consider both directions, but head south for a bit.

Plus, Mother Nature normally does not leave any right-angled edges in her work either: at least when she's using just the wind and rain to sculpt with.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Plus, Mother Nature normally does not leave any right-angled edges in her work either: at least when she's using just the wind and rain to sculpt with.

Sorry, I have seen lots of those in my travels with right angles, the rocks fell in slabs leaving right angles....

 

[Shortstack]

Plus, Mother Nature normally does not leave any right-angled edges in her work either: at least when she's using just the wind and rain to sculpt with.

ibid...........

 

[coyote3]

You are right. The thing that caught my eye was the color distinction matching where a person would knock out the chunks to shape the nose and face. Going to get my camera in here and load some more pictures of other markers for you to look at. I got a picture of a boot thats four feet tall.

 

[dsty]

What about the face looking the other direction that looks like something in its mouth

 

[Treasure finder]

Coyote, Quite possibly it is a trail marker. If so it most closely resembles a sitting poodle (dog) which was the Spanish trail marker for the Royal
Trail which was only allowed to be used by the mine owner or while transporting gold/silver/ore from the mine. In that case the next markers
will all look like sitting poodles. They don't have to look exact, as long as the Spaniard knew which trail he was on, a faint semblance would
be enough. At the end of the trail the signs would change with many possibilities such as triangles, snakes, hearts, "beer can" looking rocks etc.
Always on trail markers you should be able to be directed to the next one. If no next one, probably not a trail marker. The next one may be
a distance off if you are on a natural trail like a canyon or if directed around a hill, but they didn't want their miners (especially carrying gold)
to get lost. Good luck, go right or left from the picture to see if you find another one. Faces usually point homeward, the other way is
the mine
Rich

 

[coyote3]

Thank you treasure finder. That is very helpful. The monument is facing in a north and south directions which I was told is a good sign. Our worst weather comes from the west here which is this side that we are looking at in the pictures so if weather had done this it should be worn round from the way the sand blows in this country so believe its a marker.

 

[Treasure finder]

Good luck Coyote!
Rich