A day in New Mexico in the Gila Wilderness

Roadside wild flowers on the road to the Cliff Dwellings	Woods on the way to the cliff dwellings	Impact of erosion at Alum mountain	Path to the Gila cliff dwellings	Gila river bed under the bridge to the cliffs	Trail to the cliffs	Cliff from below
Cliff from the valley	Caves in the distance	The black hole	The path from the valley that I had climbed up	From the approach to the Gila Cliff dwellings	The valley that I climbed up from to the Gila Cliff dwellings	One of the caves of the Gila Cliff dwellings
Another view of a Gila Cliff dwelling	The entrance to the caves at Gila Cliff dwellings	Inside a cave	Looking out of a dwelling at Gila	Space at the top and back of the cave in one of the Gila dwellings	Rooms within a Gila cliff dwelling	The view from your home in the cliffs
Corn cobs that the original inhabitants left behind	Only two people on the tour	Walls inside a cave at Gila	Some living space	Picture opportunity from a cave in the Gila dwellings	A room in a Gila Cliff dwelling	Avoiding the edge
Looks narrow	The giant opening in the Gila Cliffs	The trail past the Gila cliffs	Looking up into one of the massive living areas	The roof of the cave from another a second angle at Gila Cave Dwellings	Structure in the Gila cliff homes	Roof of the last big cave dwelling at Gila
It is advisable to watch one's step on the trail back from the cliffs	View from the trail leaving the Gila Cliff dwellings	The trail to the sky	On the edge	The path to the cliffs where we started from	Steps	Last section of descent from Gila Cliff dwellings
In the Gila river bed	Geology of the Gila Cliff dwellings	John Williams and family	Gila river	Wildflowers in the floodplane of the Gila river	The Gila river floodplain full of flowers	A boy and his dog in the Gila river
Gila river flows between canyon walls	Gila Hot Springs in the valley	The shot-up Alum mountain sign	Mountain ranges	Valley with water flowing at the bottom	Trees in the valley	The stream at the bottom
Rock face	Caution	Canyon Wall	Mountain Range	Work of nature	The Passat	Mountain Ranges
Bullet holes from gunshots I assume	Memorial at intesection of 15 and 35	Panorama - View from Route 15	On route 15 - the road that leads to the sky	Santa Rita copper mine	Early mining years at Chino	Open Copper mine - 1
Open copper mine - 2	Panorama - Viewpoint in Gila	How was this rocky outcrop formed I wonder	On route 152 in the Gila Wilderness	Rock formations	Town of Kingston at the bottom of the valley	Panorama - View east from Emory Pass
Three separate sections of destination road below us from Emory Pass	The creek	Mountain Valley in the sun	Headed east for Caballo