Walk to the mountain: Kasha-Katuwe (Tent Rocks) National Monument, Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico
One of the most surreal places on earth, the Kasha-Katuwe National Monument (Tent Rocks) in Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. The videos were shot on the GoPro Hero3+, stills on the iPhone5. Music composed and mixed in ProTools10 using Garritan and Synthogy voices.
Back on Route 66 - Bottle Tree Ranch - Eaton Canyon Falls - LeAw in the USA //Ep.48
We are living the American dream driving the Historic Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica but we are doing some detours to visit some places we like.
In this 48th episode, we get back on Route 66 and visit Elmer Long's Bottle Tree Ran and stop for a hike to see Eaton Canyon Falls.
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Elmer Long's Bottle Tree Ranch - Oro Grande, California.
A forest of 200 bottle trees along Route 66.
What does one do when left with thousands of colored glass bottles? Begin a massive recycling effort, or perhaps an obscure outdoor art gallery? Elmer Long decided on both after becoming the sole beneficiary of a massive bottle collection.
As a child, Long scoured the desert with his father, collecting everything and anything. While a younger Long took notes, his father amassed an incredible collection of glass bottles. When he passed away, Long inherited his work, as well as a loss at what to do with the strange collection. In 2000, an idea struck the famously bearded Elmer Long, and he created his first bottle tree.
Shaped like hat racks, with glass bottles of all colors and shapes angled off of them, the bottle tree ranch has now grown to 200 installations. Besides being a beautiful gallery, the hollow bottles also whirr a sweet tune when the wind passes through them. For travelers making their way across America, this collection and its curator are two treasures without equal.
Eaton Canyon is a major canyon beginning at the Eaton Saddle near Mount Markham and San Gabriel Peak in the San Gabriel Mountains in the Angeles National Forest, United States. Its drainage flows into the Rio Hondo river and then into the Los Angeles River. It is named after Judge Benjamin S. Eaton, who lived in the Fair Oaks Ranch House in 1865 not far from Eaton Creek.
The most well-known portion of the canyon is the Eaton Canyon Nature Center in Pasadena, California. The trailhead of the Mount Wilson Toll Road is in the canyon.
The Eaton Canyon Natural Area Park is located where the mountain stream debouches into the foothill wash at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. The park is administered by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation. The county administers the lower two-thirds of the area below the toll road bridge. Most of the 190 acres (0.8 km2) that comprises the natural area lie on the northern boundaries of the old Rancho San Pascual and Rancho Santa Anita on land designated for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Once the railroad gave up the land, it was opened for homesteading. The nature center is unique in the area because it houses exhibits that educate on the flora and fauna local to the San Gabriel Valley Southern California. The center was rebuilt in 1998 after the 1993 fire destroyed the previous facility.
Pasadena and parts of Altadena receive about 40% of their water from local sources. The upper third is controlled by the Water Department of the City of Pasadena.
Eaton Canyon Falls
The falls are where the Eaton Creek has a fifty-foot drop and are located north of the bridge in the part of the canyon administered by the US Forest Service. John Muir once described the waterfall as a charming little thing, with a low, sweet voice, singing like a bird, as it pours from a notch in a short ledge, some thirty or forty feet into a round mirror-pool.
Several waterfalls also exist above Eaton Fall, which are more secluded. Until 1979, there was a tunnel which allowed access, but this has been dynamited and filled in. While the upper falls were accessible decades ago, there are no longer any maintained trails. People have been injured and killed trying to make these climbs.
On July 31, 2011, a man fell to his death on the hike to the falls. Another man fell to his death one week later on August 6, 2011.
On March 22, 2013, two hikers tried to climb to the second waterfall, but decided against it mid-climb. As they made their way down, they both lost their footing and fell. One hiker, a high school senior, fell to her death, and the other was airlifted for treatment.
On June 27, 2014, the US Forest Service announced plans to close the trail to the upper falls. The trail to the upper falls was closed off on August 1, 2014. Violators caught trespassing the off-limits area will face a fine of up to $5,000 or six months in jail.
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Tent Rocks- Cochiti, New Mexico
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KASHA-KATUWE TENT ROCKS NATIONAL MONUMENT
KASHA-KATUWE TENT ROCKS NATIONAL MONUMENT
Tent Rocks Canyon trail is 3 miles out and back hiking trail through a slot canyon with hoodos and striated rock formations. It is a religious site of the Cochiti Pueblo.
Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico
Our last major adventure on our Honeymoon road trip lead us to Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument in New Mexico. This place was absolutely beautiful! It's a wonderful area to hike with awesome scenic views of the rocks and canyon. We did not get to finish the complete trail but I'd highly recommend doing it if you can. We'd love to go back and try it again since Abby had a bum leg that day. One of New Mexico's hidden gems!!
#MeetLeAw - Mike & Kim - Angels on the road - Sandia Crest NM - LeAw in the USA //Ep.17
We are living the American dream driving the Historic Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica but we are doing some detours to visit some places we like.
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In this 17th episode, we met a beautiful couple and family in Sandia Crest - New Mexico.
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Thank you very much for all you have done and shared with us! Thanks Gwendolyn for making this happen, giving us the opportunity to know your wonderful parents.
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End of Route 66 - The Mother Road - Santa Monica - LeAw in the USA //Ep.49
We are living the American dream driving the Historic Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica but we are doing some detours to visit some places we like.
In this 49th episode, we get to the end of the Mother Road, Route 66, exactly at Santa Monica's Pier.
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Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is located 40 miles southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico (near Cochiti). Kasha-Katuwe means white cliffs in the Pueblo language Keresan. The area owes its remarkable geology to layers of volcanic rock and ash deposited by pyroclastic flow from a volcanic explosion within the Jemez Volcanic Field that occurred 6 to 7 million years ago. Over time, weathering and erosion of these layers has created canyons and tent rocks. The tent rocks themselves are cones of soft pumice and tuff beneath harder caprocks, and vary in height from a few feet to 90 feet.
The monument is open for day use only and may be closed by order of the Cochiti Pueblo Tribal Governor. A 1.2 mile (1.9 km) recreation trail leads up through a slot canyon to a lookout point where the tent rocks may be viewed from above. A 1.3 mile (2 km) loop trail leads past their base.
(Video) Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks Monument, New Mexico
Exotic cone-shaped formations in a National Monument. The cone-shaped tent rock formations are the products of volcanic eruptions that occurred 6 to 7 million years ago and left pumice, ash and tuff deposits over 1,000 feet thick. Tremendous explosions from the Jemez volcanic field spewed pyroclasts (rock fragments), while searing hot gases blasted down slopes in an incandescent avalanche called a pyroclastic flow. In close inspections of the arroyos, visitors will discover small, rounded, translucent obsidian (volcanic glass) fragments created by rapid cooling
Kasha-Katuwe • Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located approximately 40 miles southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, near Cochiti Pueblo. It was established as a U.S. National Monument by President Bill Clinton in January 2001. Kasha-Katuwe means white cliffs in the Pueblo language Keresan.
Kasha-Katuwe is located on the Pajarito Plateau around 6000 feet above sea level. The area owes its remarkable geology to layers of volcanic rock and ash deposited by pyroclastic flow from eruptions within the volcanic field of the nearby Jemez Mountains. Many of the layers are light in color, which is the origin of the monument's Keresan name. Over time, weathering and erosion of these layers has created slot canyons and tent rocks. The tent rocks are composed of soft pumice and tuff. Most of the tent rocks have a distinctly conical shape and some retain their caprocks of harder stone. The tent rocks vary in height from a few feet to 90 feet.
NM True TV Kasha Katuwe Tent Rocks
This national monument offers a relatively easy hike to a surprisingly stunning overlook. The tent rocks are cones of volcanic material worn into their unusual shapes over eons. And the trip to the top includes a slot canyon and multiple stops you will have to make to pull out your camera. #NewMexicoTRUE
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Travel Guide New Mexico Bandelier National Monument Los Alamos New Mexico
Bandelier's human history extends back for over 10,000 years when nomadic hunter-gatherers followed migrating wildlife across the mesas and canyons. By 1150 CE Ancestral Pueblo people began to build more permanent settlements. Reminders of these past times are still evident in the park as are the strong ties of the modern Pueblo people. By 1550 the Ancestral Pueblo people had moved from their homes here to pueblos along the Rio Grande (Cochiti, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo).
In the mid-1700's Spanish settlers with Spanish land grants made their homes in Frijoles Canyon. In 1880 Jose Montoya of Cochiti Pueblo brought Adolph F. A. Bandelier to Frijoles Canyon. Montoya offered to show Bandelier his people's ancestral homelands.In 1916 legislation to create Bandelier National Monument was signed by President Woodrow Wilson. In 1925 Evelyn Frey and her husband, George, arrived to take over the Ranch of the 10 Elders that had been built by Judge Abbott in 1907. Between 1934 and 1941 workers from the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) worked from a camp constructed in Frijoles Canyon. Among their accomplishments is the road into Frijoles Canyon, the current visitor center, a new lodge, and miles of trails. For several years during World War II the park was closed to the public and the Bandelier lodge was used to house Manhattan Project scientists and military personnel.
The Z, New Breathers, Crystals, The Dead Turtle and some Scooters. Rock Lake March 2012
A video of 70 foot gypsum crystals in Rock Lake in New mexico with DIR divers from UTD Rocky Mountains. Shows scuba divers in Rebreathers, Doubles and with the UTD Z system. Scooters also.
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument - Hiking the Slot Canyon Trail
I went on a hike at Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument in New Mexico. This video was captured with my GoPro Hero3 video camera in a first person view (FPV) perspective on the Slot Canyon Trail.
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Kumasi Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0.
Kumasi Groove (plus flugelhorn) by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0.
Coronado State Monument
Coronado State Monument and Rio Grande Hike
March 13th, 2017
Family visit from Indiana on a four day Southwest adventure.
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Thunder Boys - Cochiti Pueblo, NM | Northern - Gathering Of Nations Powwow 2018
Thunder Boys - Cochiti Pueblo, NM | Northern - Gathering Of Nations Powwow 2018
The Road Home Part 6: Ruining New Mexico
Part 6 of an 8 part series documenting our trip from North Carolina to Utah over 11 days. In this episode: We hear about some 1000+ year old Indian ruins in the middle of the New Mexican desert. The ruin site, Chaco Canyon, has been described as The Machu Picchu of the American Southwest. Come along with us as we explore this amazing historical site.
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Visit With Respect
Filmed at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and the Pueblo of Acoma, this video features five Native Americans of different generations and affiliations talking about their connections to prehistoric ruins and ways that we can visit them appropriately. The video was produced by the San Juan Mountains Association in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management Anasazi Heritage Center and the Colorado Historical Society.