Kiva

[MonikaC]

I went to a seldom-visited kiva in Cedar Mesa the other day (last day on a 12-day trip). Those of you who have spent time in the Cedar Mesa area know that it can be absolutely impossible to get high enough to see any landmarks, so you will understand why I went only with my iPhone. I'd intended to go back with my real" camera, but it was apparent that the structures would be flooded with sunlight by the time I got back, even though I would be able to get there much faster than when I first went looking for it as I found a mostly-continuous but not recently used track. As you can see, the bench on the interior wall is quite well preserved. In the canyon below the structures, there was a pour-off (now dry) that still had some water-filled potholes on it's way down into the larger canyon to the north (I think that it is Lime Canyon)

 

[Ben Egbert]

Great set, great job.

 

[AlanLichty]

Looks like it's still relatively intact - and a good example of why archaeologists have gone whole hog for drones as a survey tool to locate sites like this.

Thanks for sharing images from your visit.

 

[JimFox]

What an awesome area Monika. Cedar Mesa is on my list of places to go this year. You did a great job capturing it, with #’s 2 and 3 being my favorite.

The iPhone certainly performed well, but that’s why I always bring a camera with me, even if it’s just 1 camera I take it, because you just never know.

 

[MonikaC]

Looks like it's still relatively intact - and a good example of why archaeologists have gone whole hog for drones as a survey tool to locate sites like this.

Thanks for sharing images from your visit.

Do you wish you had that technology BITD?

 

[MonikaC]

What an awesome area Monika. Cedar Mesa is on my list of places to go this year. You did a great job capturing it, with #’s 2 and 3 being my favorite.

The iPhone certainly performed well, but that’s why I always bring a camera with me, even if it’s just 1 camera I take it, because you just never know.

Thanks, Jim. A lot of those shots were just for us nerds who love finding those places . After carrying a camera pack for most of 11 days, it was really fun to explore without one! Doing the crypto-dance (avoiding the cryptobiotic soil) was definitely much easier without a pack on, too.

 

[AlanLichty]

Do you wish you had that technology BITD?

I would have been all over that. I lived on a steady diet of aerial photographs and LANSAT images BITD but we could never fly up to a site, get pictures, and record the GPS coordinates like I could do right now with a drone.

 

[MonikaC]

I would have been all over that. I lived on a steady diet of aerial photographs and LANSAT images BITD but we could never fly up to a site, get pictures, and record the GPS coordinates like I could do right now with a drone.

And the looters...........?

 

[AlanLichty]

And the looters...........?

sigh.......

 

[JimFox]

Thanks, Jim. A lot of those shots were just for us nerds who love finding those places . After carrying a camera pack for most of 11 days, it was really fun to explore without one! Doing the crypto-dance (avoiding the cryptobiotic soil) was definitely much easier without a pack on, too.

LOL now that's totally true, it's much easier to dance without it.

But I wasn't suggesting taking your whole camera backpack, I was just suggesting that in those situations I just sling the camera over a shoulder and go. In fact I trail run with my DSLR that way, I just sling it over my shoulder and cradle it in my elbow/forearm.