Tent RocksAfter living in New Mexico for most of my life, yet nearly never leaving Albuquerque, I finally hiked at Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument near Cochiti Pueblo with my parents this past Saturday. (Kasha-Katuwe means "white cliffs" in the Keresan language of the Cochiti.) It's strange that I'm only starting to see my home state now that I'm living in Chicago.
The tent rocks are conical formations in what seems to be less rock and more hard-packed sand and gravel. It seems to me that the fast-erodability of the "rocks" is what leads to their tent shape. This photo doesn't show the formations; instead, it was taken inside a small canyon at the site. I like how the line on the wall, presumably caused by a change in the weather or something thousands of years ago, snakes its way through the canyon. [ July 11, 2005 ]
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