These are the Horsecollar ruins in Natural Bridges National Monument. They are called that because the entry ways in the two graineries on the right are in the shape of horse collars. This was shot from an overlook. There is no easy way to get down to them.
I find these things interesting. These particular ruins are located just above a river so they had easy access to water. They must have also had some kind of crop raising going on or they wouldn't need a grainery. These people were not migratory, so they had to survive a winter that would be pretty cold in this area. Bottom line, they had to be pretty tough and they needed a lot of ingenuity. I get to thinking on occasion that I would love to have a time machine. It would be of the type where you can't get off it but can only observe what is going on unlike the Time Traveler's machine in H.G. Wells' novel. Also, you could only go backwards. I guess I would add a position function as well so that you didn't have to cart it all over the place in order to have your look back. I need some help building one of these things. Perhaps John could lend a hand. He seems pretty handy with building things. This is stuff we never covered at the Academy.
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