The rockshelter itself is now a moderately large overhang, measuring
some 40 feet in width and 15 feet in depth. As Fig. 6 indicates,
the ceiling slopes upward rapidly and only the inner yard or so is
completely protected from rain or drizzle. When first inhabited, the
floor of sand and gravel sloped up to the mouth (west), and presumably
continued into the flat valley outside. At the time of excavation,
however, the surface sloped to the north. This difference appears to
have been due to the collapse of a considerable portion of the adjacent
cliff face, creating an enormous mound of dirt and sandstone, which
washed in from the north during the latest stages of occupation.
The small intermittent stream, Strain Gulch, flows in front of the
shelter on a southwest-northeast axis. It has cut down its bed to a
gravelly-bouldery layer corresponding to the lowest level at LoDaisKa.
The fill between the stream and the site is of a wet limey nature.
Excavation was extended in this direction as far as was feasible.
Beyond the stream lies a valley about one-half mile wide, bounded on
the west by the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.