It was cold – in the 40’s – but sunny and not very windy so we went exploring today. Sunset Crater Volcano exploded around 1064 A.D. and the destruction is still very evident. Can you imagine how frightened the Indians must have been? They probably figured they had really upset the gods! The ground around the area looked like a mammoth plow had churned black earth but it was hard rock.
Walnut Canyon National Monument is a unique area with numerous cliff dwellings on both side of the canyon. Archeologists think they may have lived on the sunny side in the winter and the shady side in the summer. They farmed up on the mesa and their water source was a river at the bottom of the canyon – lots of climbing up and down! We took the Island Trail that looped around the canyon – 240 steps up & down – who would have thought I’d be able to do it after my fall! The trail allows you to see and enter the dwellings – fun to imagine life as it was back then!
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