Hike #4 - Kin Klizhin Chaco Culture Outlier Ruin (1.49 miles, 1 hr 15min) - Navajo for "Black House", we bounce along the double-track skirting the south side of the Chaco mesas (see http://www.nps.gov/chcu/planyourvisit/k ... etrail.htm and http://gamblershouse.wordpress.com/2009 ... n-klizhin/ ). This is another tower kiva ruins very similar to Kin Ya'a. We continue west in my truck and see a nearby ruin that seems to incorporate some more recent times construction. A Navajo corral perhaps? The landscape becomes a series of sand dunes about 3 miles west of Kin Klizhin. The road begins to look impassable, especially as we can see evidence of makeshift "come-alongs" used by previous stuck vehicles. We decide to turnaround since my F-150 is only 2WD without offroad extrawide tires...


Those campfire discussions at Camp Chaco (see http://hikearizona.com/photo.php?ZIP=142014 ) certainly took on a wide range of topics. Introduced to the existance of Paquime Sky Island site in Chihuahua Mexico and its similarities to Chaco smoker granaries => http://www.canyonsworldwide.com/chacoan ... y_row.html

Heard some more Navajo folklore about Chaco during this year's trek => http://www.archaeology.org/0911/etc/insider.html
and
http://www.canyonsworldwide.com/chacocanyon/p25.htm

Which then gets into Cowboy Wash CO discoveries =>
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology ... ywash.html
and Polacca Wash AZ discoveries =>
http://www.unl.edu/rhames/cannibal/cannibal.htm
and Puerco River NM discoveries =>
http://www.newnation.org/NCR/reference/NCR-Anasazi.html


Maybe I should give "Man Corn" a read...