On to El Morro (Inscription Rock)!  We had a great time following a self guided tour of the monument, including the rock where we identified many amazing inscriptions that dated back to the 1600’s.  Several Lizzies (& Matthew) made the 2 mile round trip hike to the top of the sandstone rock & visited the pueblo ruins of the Indians who lived there about 800.yrs ago.  Bruce Daniel then bought ice cream bars for everyone!  Yeah, Bruce!!

The El Morro National Monument visitor center

A ranger described how important the El Morro area was to Native Americans and early settlers.

Starting the hike to Inscription Rock

Dean and Linda on the Inscription Rock trail

Mark and Sharon hiking the trail

Bruce, Dean, Bernice, and Vern at the pond at Inscription Rock that has water year around.

An "inscription" left by Captain Orton in 1866.

Bruce, Dean, Bernice, and Vern taking a break

Mark and Lorna on the two mile hike to the top of Inscription Rock

The hiking path included a loop around the top of the rock formations.

Kirk had installed a manifold cooker to heat up hot dogs - our lunch at the Ice Caves stop!

Russell and Larry checking the hot dogs in his cooker.

Hot dogs!

Larry and Michael in a camera face-off!

Julie enjoying one of the tasty ice creams that Bruce bought for everyone.

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