Chaco Afternoon View from Pueblo Bonita Overlook
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Remains of a Chacoan Stairway (right third of photo).
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Great #Kiva at Chetro Ketl
First get a feel for the size (62.5 feet across).
Then study this model of how its domed roof was constructed!
The Wiki entry says they estimate it took 750 trees brought in from a great distance...
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Very Old Beaches (Sandstone)
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Chaco Wash and Sunset as I Ended My Visit to #ChacoCanyon
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Treading lightly on the cliff-top above Pueblo Bonito as the sun was setting. 🙂
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Canyon Towhee and a Beetle
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Cliffs, Rocks and Petroglyphs "Oh My"
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"Pecked Basins" says the convenient Park Service sign.
There were two or three of these pot-sized depressions "pecked" into the sandstone where water would flow over the cliff edge.
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So you say that's a trail do you?!
Getting up and then down the Pueblo Alto trail... plus some nice fossils!
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Here are two versions of the 360 video I took as I traversed "The Crack"...
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