Starting out on our hike
Friday, March 21, 2014
March 21st--Santa Fe
Tonight we are 2 tired old farts!!! We took a 'little' hike today--3.7 miles to see the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument. The cone-shaped tent rock formations are the product of volcanic eruptions that occurred 6 to 7 million years ago and left pumice, ash and tuff deposits over 1,000 ft thick. Close inspection of these 'tents' show small rounded, translucent obsidian--volcanic glass-fragments created by rapid cooling---many of these tapered hoodoos have a boulder cap--which protects the softer pumice below--these rock formations are from a few feet to 90ft in height. We had to hike thru a narrow canyon, climbing over boulders, puffing our way up. You can see from the 3 pics of the hoodoos just how far up we hiked --the pic of Neil and I is right up on the top where we had a 360 view of the area. Climbing back down was much easier!!
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Hi B & N,
ReplyDeleteJust finished reading your blog and enjoyed it immensely.
Garry has yet to read, but sure he will. Your date on last entry is January..but I see it is really March You are making a trip of a lifetime! Good for you!
Cheers Liz
Your photos are amazing. Glad you are going to "lay behind the log" for a while. It's still way too cold to go home so just enjoy.
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