Hiking the Pueblo Alto loop

Nov. 17, 2019

Here's a belated post from Chaco Canyon.

Oct. 17, 2019

Last April we hiked to Pueblo Alto out and back (3.2 mi.), skipping the loop trail that adds 2.1 mi. Today we hiked the entire loop.

Here's the pictures...

A different angle of the Jackson Stairway.

Looking at...

... the climb down.

Overlooking Chetro Ketl

Notice the tour group around the great kiva.

A little fall color.

Chetro Ketl from a different angle.

Overlooking Pueblo Bonito, built between 850 and 1200 AD. The largest building in North America Until 1877.

The Pueblo Alto trail is entirely on the north mesa.  To get up to and down from the mesa requires a mostly hand over foot climb on the cliff face, a trail once used by the ancient Chacon's.

Climbing down from the north mesa.