Berny's photos

Arizona, USA scanned slide, Minolta X700

Arizona, USA scanned slide, Minolta X700

Arizona, USA scanned slide, Minolta X700

Sunset Crater is the youngest in a string of volcanoes (the San Francisco volcanic field) that is related to the nearby San Francisco Peaks.

"Carnegiea gigantea" near Phoenix - Arizona scanned slide, Minolta X700

Humphreys Peak (Hopi: Aaloosaktukwi, Navajo: Dookʼoʼoosłííd) is the highest peak in the US state of Arizona. It is the highest of a group of dormant volcanic peaks known as the San Francisco Peaks. I'm on the way from Grand Canyon to Flagstaff here, on a small dirt road in the wilderness. It doesn't look like 3852 m, if you compare it with mountains in our Alps. I myself stand here at an elevation of 2323 m. scanned slide, Minolta X700

People gathered here during the 1100s, about 100 years after the eruption of Sunset Crater Volcano, gradually building this 100-room pueblo with a community room and ballcourt. By 1182, perhaps 85 to 100 people lived at Wupatki Pueblo, the largest building for at least fifty miles. Within a day's walk, a population of several thousand surrounded Wupatki. Although it is no longer physically occupied, Hopi believe the people who lived and died here remain as spiritual guardians. scanned slide, Minolta X700

The Pueblo III Period (AD 1150 to AD 1350) was the third period, also called the "Great Pueblo period" when Ancestral Puebloans lived in large cliff-dwelling, multi-storied pueblo, or cliff-side talus house communities. scanned slide, Minolta X700

End of this series about Grand Canyon in Arizona - scanned slide, Minolta X700

PiP is taken at Moran Point - Grand Canyon, Arizona scanned slides, Minolta X700

One of the "table rocks" is tipped over in the meantime, see here: www.flickr.com/photos/grand_canyon_nps/7553734530

In advance of the last day of the 1986 US-trip: On top of Empire State Building, New York City - scanned slide, Minolta X700 HFF and stay safe, my friends! Have a good weekend!

Two observers near Yaki Point, Grand Canyon, Arizona scanned slide, Minolta X700

Grand Canyon, Arizona The peak in the left background (above the duck) is "Vishnu Temple" (2296 m). scanned slide, Minolta X700

Grand Canyon - South Rim, Navajo Point - Arizona scanned slide, Minolta X700