From a stand of Ponderosa pines (ancestors of
the last ice age) at the head of Pine Creek
Canyon, I pointed my camera to the southwest.
I believe the peak on the left is 5,796 ft. Sandstone Mountain, and on the right is Magic Mountain. In between, somewhere, is a rock formation called The Monument.
The entire south-north trending escarpment of
the Keystone Thrust is a monument to the sands
of time. I'm glad I had a few grains of sand
left in my hourglass! More pics on the way!!
Old Spanish Trail:
This famous trail once existed to the south
of the Red Rocks escarpment. It witnessed a
brief but furious heyday between 1830 and 1848
as a trade route linking Santa Fe, NM and Los
Angeles, CA. During that period, Mexican and
American traders took woolen goods west over
the trail by mule train, and returned eastward
with California mules and horses for the New
Mexico and Missouri markets.
During the Mexican War, 1846-1848, the
Americans' Army of the West conquered New
Mexico, then blazed a new, southern variant of
the route to California, hastening the end of
the Old Spanish Trail.
(March 10, 2008 inside Red Rocks NCA, NV)
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