Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 07/20/2025 5:27:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/TAL-seret-family-fajada-butte-NEWMEXICOSTARS0825-4de1e9045ec442e3bb335b5cf82f277a.jpg)
Robert Redford narrates a good documentary on Chaco Canyon.
Bookmark
The great “Cornucopia” said that, huh? 🙄
Nice butte!
Yes, I saw that one.
I’ve visited NM many times since my first experience in the 80s but Chaco Canyon remains on my list. This trip description has just increased my determination to visit. Great post!
This guy writes like a fag and his ****’s all retarded.
Pliedes and the constalation ‘LEO’....
FASCINATING!
.
CHACO Canyon sounds like a Big Mystery...
I may visit the Four Corners Area.
Spider Rock, Window Rock-
Navajo New Mexico and Fort Defiance.
.
NM ping!
It’s Kamala-esque, vomit-inducing, word-salad nonsense.
I mean, I agree!
Sorry, but I was expecting the article to reveal some new finding. I have been to Chaco a half-dozen times, both b efore and since the solar dagger was seen on the Fajada Butte. This discovery, really didn’t answer any of the fundamental mysteries of Chaco, but just added more details.
It is an amazing place. It’s surprising that it is not well known or taught about in our schools. It is perhaps the most important (and well preserved) pre-Columbian site in the U.S. other than Cahokia east of St. Louis.
On one memorable trip to Chaco, a friend and I spent most of one morning running 10-12 miles around the rim and up and down the steep paths of most of the canyon (calling it a “canyon” is a bit of an exageration.) There were lots of ancient footholds and handholds that the original inhabitants used to scale the walls. I would NEVER have been brave enough to use them.
One other oddity, is the mounds of potsherds everwhere. Potsherds were in the drainage ditches beside the road. Pubelo Alto had more broken pottery than you could use in a thousand years, even if you were clumsy. Weird.
Thanks, Nickcarraway, for posting.
Most of New Mexico is visual overload to me. But the politics there have made it ugly.
Cousin Eddie,
Nothing says class like a winnebago. I was having some difficulty with the writing so I jumped ahead. Thanks for the save.
I sometimes call it the Land of Disenchantment. I lived there for 12 years.
added, but not pinged:
Sounds...enchanting!
At 4 a.m., as the Milky Way peaked overhead, my alarm went off: it was time to join Adams outside. For the next 20 minutes, as my eyes adjusted to the moonless dark
= = =
So he woke up at 4 am, and still had to adjust to darkness???
Nope.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
