Cedar Mesa is located in the canyon country of southeast Utah. The famous 4 Corners. It contains a wealth of Anasazi cliff dwellings. Many are well preserved. Most are remote. One needs to be in shape, and careful where you step, in reaching these places.
Dana Hollister is a resident of the Southwest. He has put together a collection of 49 YouTube videos documenting hikes he and his wife have made visiting the ruins of Cedar Mesa.
I stumbled across his collection recently. Very high production value! A combination of pleasant music, stunning scenery, and ancient ruins. One of the nice things about his videos is that each is very short. They range from about 1:30 minutes to 5:30 minutes in length. Not easy, I'm sure, to get high production value and do justice to the subject, but these are wonderful clips, that I hope you will enjoy.
I'm going to post the first 3 from his collection, and also leave a link to the entire collection of 49 videos.
In this first clip, Hollister and his wife visit an "old friend", which happens to be an artifact! While viewing other artifacts along the way:
Lewis Lodge. Amazing that the Anasazi were willing and able to live in such a precarious setting. Hope none of them were sleepwalkers, lol:
Nothing like walking up on a perfectly preserved kiva, as if they left only yesterday:
And here is Hollister's complete Cedar Mesa collection. I envy him very much. Love the 4 Corners region, and the world and landscape and culture of the ancient Anasazi. Boy, would I need to be in shape for these hikes! No longer in this lifetime, lol. And every time I have been out there, I have driven to, and jumped into, the Atlantic upon my return! Still, I envy anyone who can live out there and get to see these places. But few are as remote as the Anasazi ruins of Cedar Mesa. Enjoy these clips!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...F_&app=desktop
BTW, you can set the collection so that the next clip in the sequence will commence at the conclusion of the last. I watched the last 20 that way yesterday, admiring the scenes from a warm landscape, while avoiding the sub zero wind chills here in southern New England.
Dana Hollister is a resident of the Southwest. He has put together a collection of 49 YouTube videos documenting hikes he and his wife have made visiting the ruins of Cedar Mesa.
I stumbled across his collection recently. Very high production value! A combination of pleasant music, stunning scenery, and ancient ruins. One of the nice things about his videos is that each is very short. They range from about 1:30 minutes to 5:30 minutes in length. Not easy, I'm sure, to get high production value and do justice to the subject, but these are wonderful clips, that I hope you will enjoy.
I'm going to post the first 3 from his collection, and also leave a link to the entire collection of 49 videos.
In this first clip, Hollister and his wife visit an "old friend", which happens to be an artifact! While viewing other artifacts along the way:
Lewis Lodge. Amazing that the Anasazi were willing and able to live in such a precarious setting. Hope none of them were sleepwalkers, lol:
Nothing like walking up on a perfectly preserved kiva, as if they left only yesterday:
And here is Hollister's complete Cedar Mesa collection. I envy him very much. Love the 4 Corners region, and the world and landscape and culture of the ancient Anasazi. Boy, would I need to be in shape for these hikes! No longer in this lifetime, lol. And every time I have been out there, I have driven to, and jumped into, the Atlantic upon my return! Still, I envy anyone who can live out there and get to see these places. But few are as remote as the Anasazi ruins of Cedar Mesa. Enjoy these clips!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...F_&app=desktop
BTW, you can set the collection so that the next clip in the sequence will commence at the conclusion of the last. I watched the last 20 that way yesterday, admiring the scenes from a warm landscape, while avoiding the sub zero wind chills here in southern New England.
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