I have moved into slightly more arid climes today with a visit to Mesa Verde NP. Its claim to fame is a series of cliff dwellings from C11th. The inhabitants, Ancient Puebloans, spent a lot of effort establishing these communities on precarious ledges and then lived in them only 80-odd years. No-one knows why they left but the dwellings have been well-preserved and take some hair-raising crawling and climbing to get into and out of - and nowdays we have the help of ladders and stairs! In the afternoon I crossed into Utah for more canyon adventures!
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