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| the morning bed-head contest |
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| big blue sky |
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| Monument Valley in the distance |
We went back down to the Kane Gulch Ranger Station and stumbled into our day's Anasazi adventure: Moonhouse. This is the good stuff. Only 20 people per day allowed. A serious scramble down one side of a valley and up the other side. A bunch of buildings; one with a corridor you can actually go into. Corridor??? Yee-haw!
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| Moonhouse ruin |
Major ruins like this one have ammo boxes with a write-up of the ruin in them. They're always worth a read. Click these for bigger versions.Moonhouse is a late period structure with a stick-and-mud wall construction of the inside rooms that was obviously much faster and easier to make than foot-thick stone walls. It also has a stone outer wall with a hallway inside and separate rooms off the hallway.
We have never seen anything like this before in our Anasazi ruin hunting. What a lovely surprise!
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| up into the main structure's hallway |
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| dark rooms. thick looking smoke marks on the ceiling |
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| walls between rooms -woven sticks covered with mud |
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| inner room with painted decoration |
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| looking + not touching + not going inside = excellent Moonhouse behavior |
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| this decoration appears fairly often in this area. clan mark? |
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| a granary further along the rim. there was lots more that we didn't have time for on this trip |
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| back we went... |
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| pool day! |
We were hot and dirty. Time to check into civilization for a shower, email, Deuce orders and the pool. Our favorite spot for that: the Recapture Lodge in Bluff, UT.
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