WUPATKI SUNSET CRATER VOLCANO, WUPATKI NATIONAL MONUMENT - FLAGSTAFF, AZ
WEDNESDAY 7/18/12 - We stayed overnight in Gallup and headed out again today. The highlight for this album shows the Wupatki ruins behind us and in the distance the Sunset Crater Volcano.
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We stop near Flagstaff, AZ, at a shop in the middle of a pile of rocks.
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The red/orange sandstone rocks are due to cataclysmic geological upheavals eons ago.
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Evidence of water and mud millions of years ago.
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Evidence of Mike
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Daniel, Walt
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Graffiti wanted
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On one end of the shop the men are waiting for the women and, on the other end, the women are wondering what's taking the men so
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As we get near the Sunset Crater Volcano, the white trunks of the Birches are a stark contrast to the black "earth".
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Huge dunes of cinders still resist vegetation after 1000 years since the last volcanic eruption.
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Panorama
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Sunset Crater Volcano panorama
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Panorama
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Painted desert in the background
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Up the road a piece to the pueblo ruins.
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At the Wupatki Pueblo National Monument with the Sunset Crater Volcano in the background.
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A brief explanation of the time, place, and people.
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The Wupatki ruins. The next picture shows what life might have been like then.
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The ruins - - - for a link to more online pictures (see description)
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The community center is a large open area. The next picture explains the uses of the community center.
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The community center
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Still used by area Native Americans are Broom Snakeweed (left) as broom or a poultice for wasp and bee stings. On the right, the
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0156 2012-07-18-166 Hopi blue corn is dried on the stalk before it's picked. This variety of corn was developed by the Hopi and
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We're walking to the ruins.
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The Wupatki also had a ball court, a Mexican idea that is rare to find in northern Arizona and suggests that the Wupatki intermi
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More about the ball court
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The "blowhole" has been bricked to preserve the entrance. Beneath is a large cavern and outside air pressure dictates
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More about the blowhole and its spiritual significance.
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Twoneedle Pinyon Pine - the tree of life for southwest natives. Seeds are high in protein, wood used for fire and building, sap
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We stay overnight and start the next day fresh for the Grand Canyon.
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