Thursday 7-25

We had a nice morning with blue skies and sunshine. We took another drive into Mesa Verde and unlike yesterday when we drove in the valleys and passes with high mountains on each side, today we drove a very windy road on the high mesa where the road drops off dramatically on each side and up and down. At the end of this road we took a tram ride to several dwelling sites and hiked to one. We headed out and had lunch at Far View Terrace, the name says it all because the views were indeed far views. While at lunch we saw a couple of black bears at the edge of the road and a ranger stopping traffic. Of course I did not bring my camera in so no pictures.

 

View of Mesa Verde from our campsite

 

A very curvy and steep road

 

Reminder of a fire

 

Kodak House

Longhouse

This was a one mile loop to Step House

 

Reconstructed to show a pit house would have looked like

 

Petroglyphs

Later we went into Cortez to a hot spot to upload pictures because the campground Wi-Fi is too slow, and then had ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery, took the truck to a car wash, got gas and bought groceries.