Hospital Rock Pictographs - Sequoia National Park, California
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teeoff2
N 36° 31.275 W 118° 46.269
11S E 341420 N 4043224
Very nice pictographs located at this site in Sequoia National park.
Waymark Code: WM527P
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 10/29/2008
Views: 56
Located in the Sequoia National park, these pictographs are easily found.
Taken from the following website
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visit link)
Location Information
Hospital Rock lies in the Foothills area of the park at an elevation of 3,000 feet. The site is now a picnic area with a short trail which leads to the Middle Fork Kaweah River. At one time in history the Western Mono tribe lived in this area. Hospital rock provides evidence of their existence in the area, in the form of pictographs. These painted images and interpretive panels give information about the Mono culture and their life in the region
Taken from the following website:
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visit link)
Hospital Rock
This pleasant site on the Middle Fork of the Kaweah River was once home to nearly 500 Native Americans belonging to the Potwisha sub-group of the Monache, or Western Mono, Indians. Archeological evidence indicates that Indians settled in this area as early as 1350. Today, visitors to Hospital Rock can still view ancient rock paintings, or pictographs, and bedrock mortars used to grind acorns. The area got its present name in 1873, when James Everton stayed here to recover from a gunshot wound he had received while stumbling into a shotgun snare set to trap bear.
Visit Instructions:1. You may log as many different waymarks as you wish but you may only log each one once.
2. You must include a close up photo of the pictograph and your GPSr. The pictograph must be recognizable.
3. Tell a little bit about what you learned of the area.