Speaker: Bob Dean

Program:   The incredible rock features as well as the mysterious cliff dwellings and petroglyphs make this area a doubly interesting trip. The Ancestral Puebloans who inhabited the cliff dwellings, mesa top settlements and many archaeological sites in the Southwest are the ancestors of today’s Pueblo culture, the Hopi and Zuni. The other major tribe, the Navajo, arrived a bit later and now occupy the areas in eastern Utah and northeastern Arizona. Our adventure starts at Mesa Verde then going west and south to Canyon de Chelly, up to Monument Valley and back to Hovenweep and Canyon of the Ancients. In addition, we'll add a couple side trips to part of Bears Ears NM and Navajo NM.