This is not a great picture, but I had to hike for a good long time to take it. So by God, you're all going to see it.
This is Balcony House, one of the ancient cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park. The only way to see it is to take a trail that curves around outside the right hand of the frame and then circles back on the other side of the canyon. When you get to the end, you have a long distance view of the dwelling.
Thanks to my bum hip and CAR-T fatigue I'm not much for long distance walking these days, and the trail is unmarked by any signage telling you how far you've gone or how far you have left. As it happens, it only took about half an hour to get to the overlook, but it felt like I was walking forever. And then I had to walk back! But at least on the way back I had some idea of how far I had to go. In the end, I was fine and my hip was none the worse for wear. And I got the picture.
Fun fact: Mesa Verde is the only National Park dedicated to something man-made.
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The Wiki page for NPS lists the St. Louis Arch, Tortugas and Hot Springs.
You are correct about the Arch. That designation changed in 2018 from National Monument to National Park - I didn't know about it until you pointed it out.
I still insist that Tortugas and Hot Springs are dedicated to islands and hot springs, and the manmade stuff there is incidental.
Thanks for your service! It's cool how well this dwelling blends into the rock face.
At the bottom, middle-right, there is a ladder comprised of three long dark logs with wide white steps. Several people dressed in blue are climbing up to the horizontal rock 'shelf'. Looks challenging, and a little risky. Is that the way up and down?
It's been many years since I've been there, but I believe you are correct. At the visitor center, there are also a couple of twisted tubes that replicate some tight spots along the way. You have to be able to crawl through them in order to know whether or not you're going to make it if you try to get to the dwelling.
Yes, several of the trails at Mesa Verde involve some contortions or mildly hazardous climbs. They can tell you how much you might need to diet.
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Note the housing under the large outcropping. Our homes became much less efficient when we got cheap. Deep eaves like what you are looking at in the photo keep the sun off the living spaces and the living area cool. The cheaper the construction, the less protection the windows will have from large overhangs.
Such a shame. Million dollar homes with crap for energy efficiency planning. Even ramshackle bungalows were built to last. One of my colleagues calls today's housing "plywood tents" and he's truly right.
And now they are killers, when on fire. Full of petroleum based materials, they burn hotter, faster, fall apart in a blink of an eye, and the smoke they make is literally an aerosolized bomb.