On the Tuesday after Christmas, I parted ways with my family and went north. I was headed towards the Grand Canyon, but needed to make a few stops along the way. They included Montezuma's Castle, an ancient Sinaguan dwelling built into a cliff, Walnut Canyon, another site with ancient ruins near Flagstaff, and the spectacular but mostly unknown Coal Mine Canyon just southeast of Tuba City, which only has modern ruins.
The drive to these destinations passed some thrilling landscapes, including the San Francisco Peaks, shattered remains of a 16,000 feet tall volcano once of which--Mount Humphreys--is the highest point in Arizona, as well as Sunset Crater, named for its summit stained red by iron. Arizona is a varied and impressive land and, aside from a few major points, had up until this point mostly been unexplored by me.
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