Despite snow announced in the mountains, VivaLaVida headed south of Moab in the Beef Basin, an area which was the wintering place for Atabascan Indians between 2,000 and 700 years ago. It contains many relics like ruins and petroglyphs or petrographs.
 
 
1. Some tracks that VLV borrows are not hardly frequented…
 

 
 
2. Here is a first ruin Southwest of Beef Basin. It dates from the end of the period, about 700 years ago; its rectangular shape attests.
 

 
 
3. Remains a doorway of which the covered stays by the force of the Holy Spirit..!
 

 
 
4. First day after the black moon…
 

 
 
5. As it was already 24F around 7 PM, I cooked a good vegetables stew to warm me up!
 

 
 
6. Arrival in the grasslands of Beef Basin.You cannot see it but it was 20F when I took this picture.
 

 
 
7. The most well known ruin as it’s close to the trail. An ancient tower which there remains a wall angle.
 

 
 
8. Further away, here’s a small round tower.
 

 
 
9. After a short walk, I arrive to one of the best preserved ruins of those I had spotted the coordinates. There are still two windows intact.
 

 
 
10. There is also still the mud to stanch the walls.
 

 
 
11. Wall details.
 

 
 
12. Here is a community farm, larger, with different rooms.
 

 
 
13. I decided to lead VivaLaVida to a promontory above Gypsum Cayon, with a rather chaotic trail.
 

 
 
14. Fortunately is wheel travel huge!
 

 
 
15. Approaching the end of the trail, the prairie stretches before us again.
 

 
 
16. The mouth of Gypsum Canyon on the Colorado River.
 

 
 
17. Gypsum Canyon deep, inaccessible from here.
 

 
 
A nice meeting to tell you in the next update. 😉