Thursday, December 29, 2016
Ellen Ruin
When we are in the Four Corners, we do go to some of the parks, but we also like driving down secondary and tertiary dirt roads on map-blank sections of BLM land. We get out and walk up quiet little washes, poking the dirt, listening to canyon wrens, and enjoying the quiet--away from the park mayhem. Because the Four Corners was once widely and populously inhabited by pueblo-building people, we often notice artifacts on the ground and masonry on the walls. Yesterday, we discovered, in a no-name wash, a very nice five-room ruin. We nick-named it the Ellen Ruin because EDO was the hiker who wanted to go in that direction. We explored the area around the ruin until sunset and then came back to make pictures in the last of the light.
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