Before we arrived at our camp, we saw a few mule deer and these adorable baby turkeys!
We are getting a little spoiled with our camping. We rented this tent and two cots. The tent was HUGE compared to our backpacking tent.
The next few pictures show a few of the many cliff dwellings. The Anasazi Indians lived on the mesa tops around 650 A.D. Starting in the 12st Century they began to live in alcoves. Perhaps to avoid enemies or weather. They would still climb up to the mesa top for farming.
Dave and I went on three guided tours which took us into the dwellings.
You can see how they would make their houses out of wood and plaster.
Now the fun part was getting in and out of the cliff dwellings. Amazingly the Indians would use hand and toes holes to climb along the cliff! I still can't figure out how they survived. I'm sure they lost a few people to the canyon.
Throughout the weekend, we went on several short hikes.
Dave cooked some delicious meals! For breakfast, he mixed sausage, eggs, onions, and bell peppers! Yum!
During the day the weather was in the 80s. It felt great! At night it got down in the 50s so the fire felt great and made yummy roasted marshmellows.
2 comments:
That's an awesome tent! Sounds like a nice trip :)
Looks like ya'll had fun. We enjoyed Mesa Verde too when we went back in 2006.
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