Quartz, stone rows, heaps and the Bear (again)...

Coming into the Bear Sweatlodge area from a different spot than usual, I saw a little stonework near the spring (the "break out zone, I was thinking - and possibly said out loud) that wasn't yet on my cognitive map of the area...
Just one stone on a boulder - or is it just the last one left?
Quartz started catching my eye...



I'm unsure if this is ancient - maybe a cover at one time for (a potion of) the spring?

I think this is another mound?row?both? I may have missed previously - stone heap in the distance... The mound was calling, since the light was just right...

I wonder how old this tree to the right of this heap might be
I burned some tobacco and removed some branches here a week ago or more and the rain washed away some debris...

I managed to get three stone heaps in this one:
That dark spot just to the right of the upper center of the photo is the Bear Sweatlodge, stone rows by the spring in the lower part - the kind that seem both stone row like or elongated stone heaps or both:

All the Bear Photos

The other day, camera-less, I streched my legs at one of those "same old places" I've been going to for years and years. I intended to just look at a spring, since there had been a recent downpour and I thought it might have cleaned itself out (This is a bogus recreation of that, using my old camera that seems to have a mind of its own). It hadn't been effected much up at the upper end, I could see that as I followed a stone row toward the spring.

The surprise was what I mistook at first as "just another cave," in an area known for its caves. The light was just right and somehow the interior of the "cave" seemed lit up.

I've commented before about a nearby cave sort of resembling a turtle; this big piece of stone immediately reminded me of a bear, especially those little stone beads in the shape of a bear:

...but at the other end, where some stones were piled up...

And I looked down at that fern covered drip edge of this big bear and saw the walled up stones that greatly resemble the stones in front of another place like this I know and thought, "Sweat Lodge..."

... under the bear's head where there was big a fire scorched stone...