I chanced upon whilst perusing MAPS. There's no signage on the highway and MAP's directions are just plain wrong. But people manage to find it, just as I did.
I've no idea how far it goes; my limit is about a mile round trip.
Looking up through these huge walls, the sky transmutes to a solid.
wow Glorious! I will write a post about signage, as i find it quite interesting the lack of or not.
ReplyDeleteWell, you know, this is the ambivalence. If there's more signage then there're more people. When I was there a week or so earlier there were three couples, another solo male and five ATVs went by. Yesterday we had it to ourselves. Bliss.
DeleteOne hundred and fifty years ago your venture into the canyon may have turned you into an Apache barbeque. They were not Johnny Depp nice and would have laughed as you sizzled over the fire.
ReplyDeleteArt,
DeleteAll I csn say is I'm glad I got here - on the planet - when I did. One of the monographs we published at UNM Press was
*Las Carneradas: Sheep Trade in New Mexico, 1700-1860*
By Baxter, John O.. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987
It began when de Oñate (or maybe it was Coronado) brought 600,000 sheep along to feed his troops (1598). The sheep decimated the landscape, changing it forever. But then, 400 years after de Oñate lopped off the hands and feet of the Acoma Puebloans, someone cut off the foot of a statue erected in Alcalde, NM.
See:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/us/statue-foot-new-mexico.html
Whether it's entertainment - sizzling over the fire - or the fabled cities of gold, I'm glad I got here when I did.
(It's just incomprehensible that in a little over 400 years we've managed to plunder the globe!)
Interesting article. I know the Spaniards were found of cutting off feet of native people. It's most unfortunate that we've depleted/exploited one resource after another. While never much of a 'science fiction' reader the recurring theme of Earth becoming uninhabitable becomes ever more believable. As the west and northwest burns up it's not coincidental that the absence of rain in the midwest is changing the landscape...and putting the evil agribusiness corporations (family farms are history) at risk. Those who should know history rarely do.
DeleteArt,
DeleteIsn't it interesting that the Euro-centric cultures, so proud of their ability to WRITE their histories pay no attention to it while those who have traditions of oral history know them, perhaps, all too well?