BGuthrie Photos: CO -- Mesa Verde Natl Park

CO -- Mesa Verde Natl Park:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MESA_710004_10.JPG: Park Point [8,572 feet]
2. MESA_710004_14.JPG: Mancos River Valley
3. MESA_710004_18.JPG: Chapin Mesa
4. MESA_710004_22.JPG: Spruce Tree House
5. MESA_710004_26.JPG: Spruce Tree House
6. MESA_710004_30.JPG: Spruce Tree House
7. MESA_710004_34.JPG: Balcony House Ruins
8. MESA_710004_38.JPG: Balcony House Ruins
9. MESA_710004_42.JPG: Square Tower House
10. MESA_710004_46.JPG: Cliff Palace Ruins
11. MESA_710004_50.JPG: Cliff Palace Ruins
12. MESA_710004_54.JPG: Cliff Palace Ruins
13. MESA_710004_58.JPG: Cliff Palace Ruins
14. MESA_710004_62.JPG: Cliff Palace Ruins
15. MESA_710004_66.JPG: Cliff Palace Ruins
16. MESA_710004_70.JPG: Spruce Tree House
17. MESA_710004_74.JPG: Cliff Palace Ruins
18. MESA_710004_78.JPG: Cliff Palace Ruins
19. MESA_710004_82.JPG: Cliff Palace Ruins
20. MESA_710004_86.JPG: Cliff Palace Ruins
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Wikipedia Description: Mesa Verde National Park
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Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The park occupies 81.4 square miles (211 square kilometers) and features numerous ruins of homes and villages built by the ancient Pueblo people. It is best known for several spectacular cliff dwellings — structures built within caves and under outcroppings in cliffs — including Cliff Palace, which is thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The Spanish term Mesa Verde translates into English as "green table".

Geography:

Mesa Verde National Park is located in the lower south-western corner of the state of Colorado [show location on an interactive map] 37�11'02?N, 108�29'19?W (37.183784,-108.488687).

Elevations in the park range from about 6,100 feet (1,860 meters) to about 8,400 feet (2,560 meters). The terrain in much of the park is dominated by ridges and valleys running roughly north and south; many of these ridges peak at an east–west crest near the park's northern border which turns more northerly–southerly towards the park entrance. The northernmost point is 13.2 miles (21.2 kilometers) farther north than the southernmost; the westernmost point is 11.9 miles (19.2 kilometers) farther west than the easternmost.

Early history:

Spanish explorers seeking a route from Santa Fe to California in the 1760s and 1770s were the first Europeans to reach the Mesa Verde (green table) region, which they named after its high, tree-covered plateaus. However, they never got close enough to see the ancient stone villages, which would remain a secret for another century. Occasional trappers and prospectors visited, with one prospector, John Moss, making his observations known in 1873. The following year he led eminent photographer William Henry Jackson through Mancos Canyon, at the base of Mesa Verde. There Jackson both photographed and publicized a ...More...
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1971 photos: From 1966 to 1975, our family lived in Franklin, Michigan while Dad worked for Kelly Services in Detroit. From 1954 to 1975, the bulk of these pictures were taken by my Dad, Glenn Guthrie At the time, he was using a complicated, but normal for the day, manual Kodak with light meters and such. All of Dad's pictures from this time were slides. From 1966 (when I started taking pictures) to 1979, I was using a Kodak Instamatic for most of my photos. From 1966 to 1989, all of my pictures were slides which is what I had grown up on. From 1966 to 1997, I was taking at most a couple of hundred photos a year. Image quality is going to be variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints. The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted. Family trips this year: I rebelled against family trips -- my bedwetting was causing continual trauma for me -- and the family took my cousin Brian Bell with them to Colorado and Utah for the family trip.
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