[nickcarraway]

[crusty old prospector]

Robert Redford narrates a good documentary on Chaco Canyon.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[BradyLS]

…At high noon during the summer solstice—the middle of the day in the middle of the year, or “the center of time,” as Cornucopia said—a dagger-shaped ray of sunlight crossed the spiral…

The great “Cornucopia” said that, huh? 🙄

[Larry Lucido]

Nice butte!

[T-Bird45]

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!

[tumblindice]

This guy writes like a fag and his ****’s all retarded.

[BipolarBob]

I wanted a Kardashian lifestyle vacation on a Cousin Eddie budget.

[Big Red Badger]

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.
.

[Jane Long]

NM ping!

[rktman]

Most of New Mexico is visual overload to me. But the politics there have made it ugly.

[Flaming Conservative]

Sounds...enchanting!

[Scrambler Bob]

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.

[Scrambler Bob]

Sante Fe — Anyone been to Sage Bakery?

[nwrep]

[No name given]

Cool.

[CenTex]

If you ever visit Chaco, the world of the Ancients will never leave you.

During our traveling years we passed by the north and south entrances several times but the roads were always closed due to recent rains and the resulting flash floods.

On one of our final trips, coming home from California, the south road was “open”. You travel on a fairly decent highway until you get to the Chaco road. It is the roughest state level road I have ever traveled. Wash-outs and a washing board road are the order of the day. No speed limits need be posted, mother nature has it set to 10 mph or less.

I am not going to detail the visit other than to say by the time you complete a casual walk around the site, we took about three hours, you will be forever amazed at the rock work, skill and culture of the ancient Puebloans.

I was fascinated by the culture before our visit and even more so after the visit. Lots of info about the Four Corners area peoples and culture on the internet. Be Amazed! Its fun...

[Flag_This]

Chaco is an interesting place to visit; and so is Aztec, NM, which is another large Anasazi site, just down the road a piece. Yeah, I don't care what the park ranger said - "Anasazi" rolls off the tongue a lot more easily than "ancestral Puebloan peoples."

There's a Navajo historian on YouTube who has some things to say about Chaco. According to their traditions, Chaco was not a good place, and the Anasazi were regarded as being completely different - and not in a good way - from the other people in that region.

[FlyingEagle]

Omitting the fact it is Navajo land.

[servo1969]

I find the word glamping to be extremely glay.

[1Old Pro]

Sounds like a great place to visit, despite the writing style of the author.