My fourth national park in four days... I've been busy. I got so lucky today. Woke up super early and couldn't go back to sleep bc I'm so excited to see Jeremy today. Arrived at the visitor center before it even opened hoping I could get a ticket to the cliff dwelling. When I got there the lady said it was sold out until 11:30 and I panicked. However, she said there might be a single ticket earlier and guess what there was one single ticked available for 9:30! So I snagged it! Now I'm waiting for the tour.
Things are coming together nicely and I'm so blessed that it had all worked out and that I get to see so much beauty and so many parks!
These cliff dwellings are something else. To think that a people saw a cave in a mountain and decided to build their community in the slot is mind boggling.
I'm a little nervous of what I'm about to get myself into with ladders and heights but I know it will be worth it.
Notes:
I'm in cliff palace
80-100 people lived here
Largest site in the park
600 sites in the park
Trees date between 12 and 1280
80% moves into alcove sites for about 100 years then they move again
Moved from up above to down below
60-80 feet above of sandstone
120 feet below drop off
There is no such thing of wild corn it's cross pollination of two grasses
Depleted woods and soil so they had to leave
800 years old built by hand!
Life expectancy: 35 years women height: 4'8 men ten years longer 5'
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