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MA & T around Four Corners:
Chaco, Mesa Verde and Monument Valley


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Photo: T, 2013/9/26
Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon.

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Photo: T, 2013/9/26
The Chacoan builders supported Threatening Rock with a masonry terrace in about 1050, but it continued to "talk" and despite warnings from rangers to the Parks bureaucracy it fell in Jan. 1941 onto a section of the pueblo which had been excavated in the 1920s.

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Photo: T, 2013/9/26
Two stories of ceiling rafters. You can just see the end of one of the "vigas" that support them underneath at right angles. The logs came by manpower from the Chuska Mountains, 40 miles to the west.

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Photo: T, 2013/9/26
Here is an intact ceiling.

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Photo: T, 2013/9/26
A corner door.

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Photo: T, 2013/10/5
The Sacramento Peak Solar Observatory told us something else about Pueblo Bonito.

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Photo: M, 2013/9/26
Some kind of Puebloan Symbol?

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Photo: M, 2013/9/27
Snow in Colorado. Some fell on us en route.

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Photo: M, 2013/9/27
Mesa Verde, Colorado ...

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Photo: M, 2013/9/27
Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde ...

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Photo: T, 2013/9/27


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Photo: T, 2013/9/27


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Photo: M, 2013/9/27


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Photo: T, 2013/9/27
Axe-grinding stone on the Petroglyph trail, Mesa Verde.

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Photo: M, 2013/9/27
Petroglyph trail from Spruce Tree House, Mesa Verde ...

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Photo: M, 2013/9/27


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Photo: T, 2013/9/27
Not a "wish you were here" photo.

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Photo: M, 2013/9/27
Can you guess? Tree worms.

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Photo: T, 2013/9/27


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Photo: T, 2013/9/27


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Photo: T, 2013/9/27
.. petroglyphs.

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Photo: M, 2013/9/27


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Photo: M, 2013/9/27
Twisted log at the end of the Petroglyph Trail.

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Photo: M, 2013/9/27
Hwy 160, en route from Mesa Verde to Shiprock through the Canyon of the Ancients.

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Photo: M, 2013/9/28
Hoodoos on Hwy 160.

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Photo: T, 2013/9/28
Monument Valley's Mittens.

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Photo: M, 2013/9/28
It was a traffic jam at Monument Valley. Returning tourists in those roofed trucks looked seasick.

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Photo: M, 2013/9/28
Hogan with cribbed roof.

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Photo: T, 2013/9/28
A dust dervish chased us from Monument Valley.

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Photo: M, 2013/9/28
Cliff dwellings on San Juan river at Mexican Hat, Utah.

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Photo: T, 2013/9/28
Rocks near Bluff, Utah.

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Photo: T, 2013/9/28
Four-corners dervishes.