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Here are a some archeological, historical, scenic and
personal photos I have shot over the last few years.

     
     
     
Blue Hole scuba   Santa Rosa, New Mexico, has a cavern filled with water. Land-locked divers go there to learn, practice, and enjoy their diving skills. The hole is actually 300 feet deep, but there's a grate that seals off the "hole" to a safe depth of 80 feet (max).
     
Rio Grande float   Some NMO guys decided, this May (high water in the otherwise near-dry Rio Grande) to float and paddle eight miles down the river, starting at the Alameda Bridge, to Central Avenue. The current was swift (no paddling UP possible).
     
Archeology digs   UNM Field School Paleo-indian excavation Boca Negra Wash (Albuquerque), summer 2002. These photos are in an older, low resolution, slideshow format. [50 photos]
     
Abo Ruins   Ruins of a Spanish cathedral at Abo. Almost all evidence of native religion was destroyed. [19]
     
Aztec Ruins   Ruins of Chaco-culture people in Aztec, NM, mistakenly thought "Aztec" when found. The area, a walk- through, an exposed kiva, and the Great Kiva (imaginatively "restored" to a height about four feet too high, probably to give it the greater dimensions of a cathedral). [42]
     
Bandelier Canyon   Bandelier National Monument. Ruins walk (easy), kiva climb (not for acrophobes!), forest trail (easy, but stream-crossings present problems), Tyuong Pueblo (Frijoles Trail, a steep trail). [63]
     
Chaco Canyon   Casa Bonita, Pueblo Alto, and camping alone (2003). With a friend (2004). [73]
Chaco Canyon   Chaco Culture National Historical Park (2003). Petroglyph trail. [40]
     
Domingo Baca Canyon nmo NMO hike to TWA crash site in Domingo Baca Canyon (Albuquerque). Beautiful summer day, moderate to difficult hike (8 hours, high altitude), amazingly twisted wreckage, and a lunch hour spent munching lunch in an almost perfect location. ("Hey, is all this stuff POISON IVY?") [43]
     
Gran Quivera   A large city ruin. Spanish missionaries first "tolerated" native religion, but later forced the inhabitants to build a cathedral -- after which the Spanish destroyed the kivas to exterminate native religion. But the Indians fooled the Spanish by hiding their kivas in above ground rooms. [48]
     
Tsankawi Ruins   Tsankawi Ruin near Los Alamos, NM. Shard-littered mesa, worn-down footpaths in soft stone, carved dwellings, petroglyphs. (Easy access, and moderate walk. Some ladders.) [61]
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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