The old one in the second picture became unsafe because of structural issues. I didn't know they were still going to use the old building and run a shuttle up from the new one. There has been a catwalk added so you can view what I call the wall of bone in the third picture from Google. Pictures can't do this justice.
Places like this are special. Some of the best people to be had work on these things and I cannot wait to see this. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure my visit will not happen this year.
This is what I want my tax dollars being used for - rather than obvious other things it's used for now.
This looks fabulous. I just sent it to my husband to put on our "to visit" list.
ReplyDeleteCan you see Fred and Wilma Flintstone's skeletons in the Wall of Bones? :=)
ReplyDeleteDo it Billie and I sent you an e-mail too.
ReplyDeleteThat's the word on the street Fearguth but I've not seen them myself. After all they did live together ya know.
Making ruins for someone a few hundred years from now to poke around in is investing in the future I reckons.
ReplyDeleteAnd it will not be man who will be looking ano.
ReplyDeleteI don't disapprove.. heck I'd like to go there sometime. But sometimes a person gets the urge to get off the carefully marked paths, which becomes severely limited on those organized sites.
ReplyDeleteAt Chaco a person might wonder what's wrong with peeing right over there on top of where those Chacoans peed. At Hovenweep a person can't help feeling the seductive call of a closer look down the cliff wall underneath.
A dozen-or-so years ago some kid got off the trail at Gila Cliff Dwellings. Found an undiscovered cave dwelling right there in the midst of them all, untouched, loaded with corn and pots. Taught them more about the people who lived there than they'd ever guessed they didn't know.
On the other hand, another kid might have raided the cave and broken the pots.