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Mouth of Camel Rock Now Gone
KOB4 ^ | February 03, 2017 | Brittany Costello

Posted on 02/05/2017 2:16:57 PM PST by nickcarraway

Camel Rock is a landmark along the interstate betwSanta Fe and Espanola. It's a pile of rocks that look like a camel sitting down. Locals love it, and tourists flock to it.

But Camel Rock now looks a little bit different. It's hard to tell from a distance but up close, it's easy notice a huge chunk of rock that created the camel’s mouth is now gone.

When compared side by side, it’s easy to see.

“I feel sad. I feel sad,” said Vincent Lopez, who lives nearby in Nambe. “It's Camel Rock. I mean, you could compare it to Bandelier. You know the caves and all that. I mean they've been there forever.”

For Lopez, this has been a hangout spot since he was a kid. Before these fences were put into place he says he would climb the rocks with his friends and admire the natural beauty.

“Not only is Camel Rock historic, it’s symbolic. So it's a great loss,” Lopez said.

That's how he describes the look of the rock now after a big chunk broke off. For those who live around the landmark, many people say they haven't noticed much of a difference. But will the changes cause tourists traveling on US 84 to keep on moving instead of stopping to take pictures?

“It looks a little bit still like it but I guess you can tell before it was more noticeable,” said Krystal Mantei, a tourist that stopped at the Camel Rock Casino.

Not for these tourists from Texas.

“I believe people would still come out to see it. It still looks enough like a camel to me, from being a tourist myself,” Cody Mantei said.

KOB reached out to the Pueblo of Tesuque to see if anything could be done to fix or repair it, but has not heard back.


TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: erosion; newmexico; weather; wind
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To: nickcarraway

But the Old Woman still stands between Aztec and San Juan Reservoir. At lest she was there a couple of years ago.


41 posted on 02/05/2017 4:19:31 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: yetidog
Just change it’s name. Maybe “ET Rock.”

Beat me to it. It looks more like ET now than it looked like a camel before.

42 posted on 02/05/2017 4:34:35 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: nickcarraway

It looks like a security camera now.


43 posted on 02/05/2017 4:55:05 PM PST by This I Wonder32460 (I'd rather be deplorable then delusional.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yes, he would.

[I have a very long story about Webster and his speech in Vermont]


44 posted on 02/05/2017 4:59:36 PM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: piasa
A slightly better viewing angle:

 photo Camel Rock.jpg

45 posted on 02/05/2017 5:00:40 PM PST by pigsmith
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To: nickcarraway
I've been by Camel Rock many times. It really is a beautiful thing.

Camel Rock - Chuck Pyle

46 posted on 02/05/2017 5:06:55 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life ~ Vote!)
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To: Liberty Valance

Wow. That is beautiful.


47 posted on 02/05/2017 5:26:34 PM PST by pigsmith
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To: editor-surveyor

, , disk, shovel & SHUT UP!!! Don’t go hollering, “LOOK
SHERIFF, I RAN OVER A KANGAROO RAT!!”


48 posted on 02/05/2017 5:38:00 PM PST by Twinkie ( John 3:16)
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To: Twinkie

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The farmer did nothing.

The enviro-jerks went to his fields at night looking for something to hook him on.

This is probably beyond your understanding.
.


49 posted on 02/05/2017 5:40:30 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Daffynition

I remember that; it was right around the time that quarter was released. That’s a shame...

Here in NJ people were upset that NY put the Statue of Liberty on their quarter; while I believe the island was legally given to them by the feds at some point, it is much closer to NJ (and very clearly on our side of the line between the states drawn in the Hudson River).


50 posted on 02/05/2017 5:42:10 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: nickcarraway; All

I respectfully question the referenced pictures. They seem to have been taken from possibly significantly different angles. The KOB4 picture seems to be aimed at the camel’s nose, the alleged “missing” mouth being the camel’s left ear.

Corrections welcome.


51 posted on 02/05/2017 5:53:49 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: kearnyirish2

It’s a shame that nothing stays the same. Well, we have our memories. And they are good ones. :)


52 posted on 02/05/2017 7:59:21 PM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: Liberty Valance

When I was a kid we’d stop at Stuckeys for a coke and sometimes we’d hike up to the rock.


53 posted on 02/05/2017 8:07:01 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: nickcarraway

This loss is just awful. I hope that piece of toast that had Jesus’ image on it is still preserved...


54 posted on 02/06/2017 5:54:58 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I thank God, Broom Hillary was stopped. Now, moving on, I pray for Trump.)
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To: nickcarraway

Call it E.T. Rock.


55 posted on 02/06/2017 5:20:34 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: editor-surveyor

Don’t look at me. I’m a Reagan Republican from way back.
I foolishly voted for Carter ONE time. Voted REAGAN and
HAVE NEVER, NEVER, NEVER looked back. Twinkie is NOT a
Democrat Roosevelt Coattail Rider! (Voted TRUMP in 2016.)
SICK of the CLINTOONS! ALL THE CLINTOONS!


56 posted on 02/07/2017 11:31:13 AM PST by Twinkie (The MSM is DEAD.)
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To: Daffynition

Tell us!


57 posted on 02/11/2017 1:38:25 AM PST by Impy (Toni Preckwinkle for Ambassador to the Sun)
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To: nickcarraway

Camels are associated with Arabia, Arabs are mostly Muslim. Trump hates Muslims.

Ergo, this is Trump’s fault.


58 posted on 02/11/2017 1:44:04 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Impy

Sorry, I’m not up to the task today. But this link is the bulk of the fascinating story.

This is on the Boston-to-Albany Turnpike, which is a dirt road, in the middle of *no where*.

https://dailygazette.com/article/2009/08/30/0830_webster


59 posted on 02/11/2017 6:19:59 AM PST by Daffynition ("The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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