2007 SW Trip: Mesa Verde
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 Entering Mesa Verde at 7:00 AM |
 Park Point (as if you can't read) |
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 There's a campground near the entrance to the park, not open yet. The lodge near the visitor |
 Spruce Tree House |
 The park policy is to stabilize or reinforce rather than rebuild, so roughly 95 percent of this |
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 A horde of schoolkids also visiting |
 Examples of construction finish |
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 Possibly a cooking area back there? |
 A Kiva |
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 On top of the mesa, diagram of a pithouse site. |
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 What the canyons are like |
 Not only was the place less than hospitable, it was tough to get around. |
 Another ruin |
 Where the heck would they grow anything? |
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 This describes how villages were rebuilt on top of the previous one with increasingly |
 This is the pit house, don't forget |
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 Directly across is Sun temple. There is a high concentration of dwellings nearby, |
 That sure as heck was out of the rain |
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 Heading north through Utah |
 North of Monticello, UT on US191 heading to Moab |
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