THREE HIKING SISTERS, we love to hike together, but we don't all live in the same state. Sometimes it is only two of us, and sometimes we hike with others. This is a record of some of our hikes.
The last site we visited at Chaco Culture National Historical Park was Una Vida, this was 1 mile round trip to see the site and petroglyphs in the cliffs above. View as we walked towards Una Vida
some of the views at Una Vida:
View looking down at part of Una Vida as we hiked up to see the petroglyphs:
Petroglyphs we saw:
The third place we visited was Pueblo del Arroyo at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, This is a 0.25 mile round trip going around and through. Some of the views we saw:
Our second destination at Chaco Culture National Historical Park was to hike the Pueblo Alto Trail. This was abut 6 miles with 350 ft of elevation gain. The trail starts by hiking 0.3 miles down a closed road to Kin Kletso.
Some of the views as we hiked around Kin Kletso:
some petroglyphs by Kin Kletso
A look back at Kin Kletso as we continued on the trail to go up to the mesa.
The trail going up to the mesa is very steep.
And goes up through a steep slot between the mesa wall and a huge boulder.
Up on the mesa the "trail" goes past some carved holes.
Some views on this level of the mesa, before the beginning of the loop portion of the hike.
We went clockwise along the loop and came to New Alto:
Nearby was the older Pueblo Alto:
As we continued along the mesa loop, we would see many fossilized shrimp burrows in what had once been a sea floor:
Some orange colored rocks:
Across the way is the Jackson Stairway, how the ancient puebloans climbed the mesa wall.
zoom of the Jackson Stairway:
Lots of interesting rock formations on the mesa:
The trail eventually comes to a narrow split in a huge boulder, this is the trail:
A tight space!
As the loop returns along a lower level, there are areas to see the pueblos we visited earlier down below. Here is Chetro Ketl:
And Pueblo Bonito:
Another view ofKin Kletso as we returned down the trail:
