White House Ruins - Canyon de Chelly - Navajo Reservation - AZ - 9/27

Today I walked down to the "White House" ruins. The hike was about 1.5 miles one way with a 600 foot elevation change. It wasn't bad at all. The views into the canyon were stunning. Almost as beautiful as Bryce, only in a different way. When you look at the pictures make sure to angle things so that the picture is as dark as possible. That would be the depth of the true color, really magnificent.

That's the trail down.

There were a couple of tunnels. One I had to go into in the dark for about 5 steps then you could see the other end. OK, I don't like tight places ... much less dark!

See the Indian spirit at the end of the tunnel? Well, OK it was a man coming out of the bright sun light.

The path also included spots where you were walking on pure rock cliff.

This was a cave at the bottom of the canyon. If you look at the picture that is more of a vista view from the top of the path at the beginning of the blog, you'll see this cave.

This was a sheer drop off the path. If you look carefully you'll see that this rock is worn and smoothed by water. I'm guessing that when it rains or in the spring when there is the snow run off, the water must rip through this area.