Bandelier Monument is a magical place.
Thirty years ago we climbed there, a trucker from Illinois and two ladies and I.
A.D. climbed a rock and fell and I caught his head with one hand a foot from the stone floor beside us.
We all agreed he definitely owed me one after that.
It was Bandelier where a fed set a fire new moon May 2000 with a crew of six at midnight intending to burn 300 acres and burned 50,000, causing the evacuation of Los Alamos National Laboratories for a week--with Raymond "Buddy" Young as regional FEMA manager.
Buddy Young is featured in Terry Reed and John Cummings, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA, SPI/Shapolsky, 1994, guarding the bunker wherein AG Ball presided over a meet with Oliver North and Clinton re Mena.
During the week the Labs were evacuated, two hard drives went missing from the kit of the emergency nuclear response team, subject matter variously described as foreign nuclear weapon procedures or "suitcase" nuke technology, not necessarily different things.
The hard drives were "found" in an area previously searched twice.
No satisfactory explanation has ever been made.
Bandelier Monument is named after an anthropologist, Adolph Bandelier. The ruins are considered the ancestral home of the Cochiti Pueblo Indians. It was orginally inhabited by people known as the Anasazi. The monument is located in the Frijoles Canyon (Bean Canyon) with the Tyuonyi village at the floor and several homes built in the cliffs.
The area, known as the Rio Grande Valley, was inhabited from the 600's to the 1600's. People started forming this community around 1150 and stayed for about 500 years and then spread out to smaller surrounding communities. Buildings were built at the entrances of natural caves in the cliff. This was used for defense and convenience.