Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

Arches Canyon and Moab follow the Chaco Canyon images.

You are greeted by the sacred Fajad Butte when you enter the park after a long and bumpy dirt road.

Base Camp with individual dwelling ruins in the background.

Hiking to Casa Bonita great house

Denise, Ward and Lee Ann at Chaco Canyon New Mexico.

Casa Bonita, largest and most beautiful.  Had and estimated 650 rooms and and 5 stories high.  There were 7 – 8 big houses in this canyon.

Rock Art

See person in the upper right hand of this photo.  She is on the stairway that goes to the top of the Cliff to Neu Alto and Pueblo Alto on top of the canyon walls.

Classic Anaszi window and door architecture

Arches Canyon and Ruins near Blanding Utah

Lyle and Denise at Arches Canyon Ruins.

There were pottery shards in this area that were still lying on the ground.  They resembles some of the beautiful pieces found in Chaco Canyon.

Mark, Terrie, Ward, Lee Ann, Denise and Lyle in Arches Canyon.  We ended up crossing the stream in this canyon over 50 times.  There had recently been a flash flood thru this area.

Beaver Pond Ruins, Arches Canyon

Jail House Ruins, Arches Canyon Wash

Denise, Lyle, Lee Ann, Ward, Mark and Terri at the end of the road with Cathedral Arch in the back ground.

Moab Baby

The Ding Dong Gang Rally salute, Ward, Lyle, Terri, Denise and Jay at the upper Gemini Bridges Parking Lot where we stopped for lunch.

Below Gemini Bridges, Jill, Jay, Denise, Lyle, Lee Ann, Ward, Mark and Terrie, below Gemini Bridges.

Gemini Bridges from Above and Across the Canyon

On the way to Chicken Corner

Uranium Arch

Determination Towers

 

I have been trying to find a way to Bear Lake, a small lake in Northern California in the area we call the high lakes for years.  It is the only large lake I have not been too yet.  I have tried on at least 6 different occasions to get there.

Finally Denise and I took the quads as far as the trail seemed safe enough to take and packed in the rest of the way.  Probably 1 ½ miles each way.  The road was pretty knarly to get to this point and was worse as you will see.

Very LONG and STEEP granite drop

Bear Lake

Bear Lake, Spring Valley Lake is on the top of ledge above