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View of Spruce Tree House cliff dwelling from a sandstone mesa adjacent to the Museum at Mesa Verde National Park near Durango, Colorado.
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Close-up view of Spruce Tree House ruin adjacent to the Museum at Mesa Verde National Park.
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View of the main Spruce Tree House platform. Spruce Tree House ruin is the third largest cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park.
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Close-up View of Spruce Tree House ruin. Spruce Tree House had 114 rooms and 8 kivas.
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View into Kiva at Spruce Tree House ruin. Spruce Tree House housed approximately 125 to 150 people.
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View of Cliff Palace from the opposite mesa canyon wall. Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in the Park.
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Close-up view of Cliff Palace from the position of the previous image. Cliff Palace had 217 rooms and 23 Kivas.
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Zoomed view of Cliff Palace. Cliff Palace housed approximately 250 people and it's construction started around 1150 A.D.
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View looking downstream in the Paria River on the way to Buckskin Gulch.
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Continuing downstream in the Paria River on the way to Buckskin Gulch.
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Sandstone formations along the Paria River.
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Erosion affects on the sandstone adjacent to the Paria River.
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View looking upstream of "Slide-rock" in Paria Canyon.
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View looking downstream from under "Slide-rock" in Paria Canyon.
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Sandstone enclosure in Paria Canyon.
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Boy Scout group hiking downstream in the Paria River drainage.
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Continuing downstream in Paria Canyon to the confluence with Buckskin Gulch.
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Continuing downstream in Paria Canyon to the confluence with Buckskin Gulch.
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Continuing downstream in Paria Canyon to the confluence with Buckskin Gulch.
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Continuing downstream in Paria Canyon to the confluence with Buckskin Gulch.
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Continuing downstream in Paria Canyon to the confluence with Buckskin Gulch.
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Looking upstream at the confluence of the Paria River and Buckskin Gulch.
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Looking downstream near the start of the trail to Wire Pass near Page, AZ. The trail follows the bed of an intermittent stream.
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Sandstone formation along the trail to Wire Pass.
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Looking up a side drainage along the trail to Wire Pass.
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Looking east to large sandstone formations from a bench above the trail to Wire Pass.
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Narrow trail carved out of solid sandstone approaching Wire Pass.
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Looking downstream at the slot canyon in the dry creek bed that is the trail into Wire Pass.
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Looking upstream at a five foot drop off in the slot canyon floor. In April 2002 there was a second drop
off about eight foot deep nearby. In March 1998 there were no drop offs.
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Looking downstream from the previous image.
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Another view inside "Wire Pass". This slot canyon narrows to just less than three feet wide.
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The east end of the Wire Pass slot canyon drops into Buckskin Gulch. This huge sandstone alcove marks the termination of Wire Pass.
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