Below are the pics from our second full day at Chaco Canyon.
Petroglyphs between Pueblo Bonito & Chetro Ketl
Indentions in the cliff face - believed to be where
tools were sharpened, but no one really knows.
Rock like the one that fell on Pueblo Bonito
Look carefully & you can see where there
was once a balcony along this Chetro Ketl wall
Window looking into a room at Chetro Ketl
The South Mesa Trail is mostly flat, once you get on top of the mesa. It's a bit of a scramble to get up to the top - either direction, from the south gap or from the trailhead at Casa Rinconada. We started at Casa Rinconada and did the entire loop which is 4.1 miles round trip. If you just go to Tsin kletzin and back (from CR) its about 3 miles rt. However, I highly recommend the whole loop - yeah, some of the scenery get's boring but the trail coming off the mesa near South Gap is just amazing!!! Quite a climb down but so worth it.
Tsin Kletzin was built and occupied near the end of the Chacoan "empire", between AD 1100-1125.
"Fat Dog Canyon" along the South Mesa Trail
Not so good for fat people either - we squeezed
through just barely. haha
View toward Pueblo Bonito and Pueblo del Arroyo
from South Mesa Trail
Tsin Kletzin ruins about a 1.5 miles in on the
South Mesa Trail
Approaching Tsin Kletzin
South Mesa Trail
View from South Mesa Trail
South Mesa Trail
Hannah & Maggie resting in about the only
shade on the trail
Another view from SMT
Where the South Mesa Trail ends - Casa Rinconada Kiva
The stairs are on the right-hand side
of this picture.
Rainbow back at camp
Pooped pups.
2 comments:
Soggy:
I have enjoyed all of your pictures of Chaco SO MUCH! Thanks for posting all of them.. That's still on our list of places to go!
Go! But in the fall or spring... I think summer would be toooooooo HOT!
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