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14 by photographer avatarDarthStiller
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Step HouseSouthwest, CO
Southwest, CO
Hiking0.75 Miles 100 AEG
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This was our last visit to a big ruin and it doesn't require a ticket or a guided ranger tour. :GB: It's also the biggest hike to and from. As you walk in, it's very green an lush. this ruin is one of the most interesting in the sense that they have excavated and reconstructed some pit houses, which are from 625 AD, about 500+ years older than most of the cliff dwellings built in 1100 AD. It's also interesting to see how they have illustrated from this ruin and other mesa top pithouse ruins how pithouses evolved into kivas.

there was a big group when we arrived, but by the time we left, we were the only ones and we left the supervising ranger alone. On the way out, the trail takes you right above the ruin, looking in over the very high overhang above it. :scared:

Afterwards, we hit some more drive by overlook sites and headed back to our hotel. That night, we decided to walk to the cafeteria for dinner and on our way back were rewarded by the site of 5 whitetail bucks in felt. : rein : We spotted them while walking on the trail, and then while sitting at a picnic table they came out of the brush and crossed the road right in front of us. Of course, not expecting to see anything, my camera was back in the hotel room. ](*,) :tt:

Left the next morning to continue our vacation. :lone:
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