Fire has some benifits

The Commander insisted we spend another day in the Cochiti Lake area.  A big debate took place about how to explore.  Take the cycle, take the truck, take both, take one part way and the other the rest of the way.  In the end we just got in the truck and drove into the mountains.

The road was very steep and had some classic cliff hanging parts.  The area we hiked into had all been burned in a huge fire last year.  Now you could see many features that had been covered by brush.  Our goal was to hike about three miles across two canyons to find some archaeological sites.  On the way we came across a very high waterfall. Unfortunately there was very little water.

Since we got off to a late start we were running out of daylight and had to return.  On the way back Kadizzle heard voices and noticed three older women hiking off a Plateau.  After we asked them about ruins in the area they pointed us toward some field house ruins.  We should have noticed them on the way out, but thought we would be looking for cliff like ruins in a canyon.  The field house ruins had some good pottery shards.  After inspecting them we headed down the mountain.