Wednesday, July 21, 2010

photos of bandaleir santa fe flagstaff grand canyon sedona sunset crater petrified forest painted desert

This is Bandaleir National Monument Some Native american ruins and Pueblos



Us in Santa Fe, NM
Noah at the oldest house in Santa Fe



The divide btw Arizona/NM if you don't know the continental divide determines water flow in the continent. West of the divide water flows to the pacific ocean, east of it flows to the atlantic
The painted Desert and Petrified Forest



Noah and I at the Tipees of the Painted Desert

Some petrified wood at Petrified Forest National Park

The drive to Sedona, Az

Hiking around sedona (the sphinx formation is in the background)

At the top of the Sugarloaf Hill trail

Noah with chimney rock in background

Us at Sunset Crater National Monument!
This is sunset crater a new-ish volcano that erupted about 500 years ago. Because of the way that it erupted. many cinder cones were formed in the area that are basically mounds of volcanic basalt.




lava flow visible at the bottom of the photo
Climbing at "the Pit" with Graham in Flagstaff Az





The Grand Canyon
We hiked the South Kaibab Trail



the black widow spider in her nestThe view from ooh-aah point

Noah with a century Yucca. It blooms once every 10-15 years but early people named it this because it felt like forever to them (a century)
At Cedar Ridge


View on the way back up
The snow/hail on the side of the road

2 comments:

  1. Sunset Crater's last eruption is thought to be over 900 years ago.

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  2. Sunset Crater's last eruption is thought to be over 900 years ago.

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