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Bicycle Tour Adventure #40

Day 1, 2, 3,
Side Visits: Pinos Altos, Gila Cliff Dwellings,
Petroglyph National Monument

Pictures and Stories About Bicycle Tour Adventures

Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (GDMBR - Segment):
Tyrone, Tyrone Copper Mine, Silver City, Pinos Altos,
Lake Roberts, to Gila National Forest, (Southern Section),
New Mexico; By Bicycle Tour; February (Valentine's Week), 2012



Gila Cliff Dwellings, New Mexico


Above: View from the morning 4x4 drive (it snowed) - Looking westward at the New Mexico portion of the Mogollon Rim



Above Left: Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument Visitor Center.

Above Right: Geronimo was born near the head waters of the Gila River.











Above: Seen while walking up to the cliff dwellings.


























Above Right: Actual corn discovered in a sealed room with a container (about a thousand years old). After displaying the corn, mice found it and ate the kernels, so the Rangers decided to leave it as is and display the husks.




Above Left: It is an adult hand print and there is a suspected child hand print nearby.

Above Right: To Ranger Volunteer Bob's best knowledge, this is the only known Mimbres example of using a type of 'Wood, Stone Block, and Mortar' construction method.







This ends the Gila Cliff Dwellings Adventure.


Tour Pinos Altos Top Petroglyphs National Monument