Canyon de Chelly: The Oldest White House

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

This is the third and final page of a longer article about the Road to Spider Rock. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 UPDATE: SEPTEMBER, 2024:  White House Overlook and Trail to reopen in...

Canyon de Chelly: Riding the Rainbow to the Universe: The Legend of Spider Woman

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

Canyon de Chelly: Riding the Rainbow to the Universe: The Legend of Spider Woman Spider Rock from below, with my black Jeep at lower left for scale.  This is the second page of a longer article about the Road to Spider Rock. If you’d like to begin at the...

Canyon de Chelly: Part 4: The Road to Spider Rock

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

The twin pillars of Spider Rock were left behind, like a pair of stubborn hold-outs, when everything else around them slowly weathered away. Technically, they are the last remnant of the geological process that created this part of Canyon de Chelly, but that’s...

Canyon de Chelly: Blue Bull and Mummy Cave

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

This is the fifth and final page of a longer article about Canyon del Muerto. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 A couple of miles further along, the floor of the canyon widened significantly,...

Canyon de Chelly: Standing Cow: A Home Among the Ruins

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

This is the fourth page of a longer article about Canyon del Muerto. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 After our long, leisurely break, parked by the Antelope House, we climbed back into my...

Canyon de Chelly: Antelope House Ruin

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

This is the third page of a longer article about Canyon del Muerto. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 The canyon was quite lovely in this area. Wind-sculpted sandstone cliffs rising eighty to...

Canyon de Chelly: Ruins and Rock Art

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

This is the second page of a longer article about Canyon del Muerto. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 We drove another mile or so, traveling slowly. The canyon would widen for a bit, and...

Canyon de Chelly: Part 3: Canyon del Muerto

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

Famed photographer Ansel Adams once described Canyon de Chelly as the most beautiful place on earth.  After his first visit to the area in 1937, he wrote to his wife Virginia, that “The Canyon de Chelly exceeds anything I have imagined at any time!” And he was...

Canyon de Chelly: Where Canyons Collide

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

This is the fifth and final page of a longer article about Canyon de Chelly. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 CASTLES IN CAVES IN THE CLIFFS! (OH, MY!) FIRST RUIN We skirted around the end...

Canyon de Chelly: Kokopelli and the Lightning Spear

by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Travel, Tribal Lands

This is the fourth page of a longer article about Canyon de Chelly. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 DUCK ROCK We got back in my Jeep and drove for a bit, though not too far. It was a...