Outdoor Travel Adventures

CHACO CANYON ARCHEOLOGY, NEW MEXICO
April 13 - 18, 2004
$985
Mary Coffin, Leader

Slide show of similar outing in 2003 at Canyon de Chelly, also led by Mary.

Thank you for your interest in Chaco Canyon Archeology trip, jointly sponsored by ADK and Four Corners School of Outdoor Education (FCS). This trip provides a wonderful opportunity to explore ancestral Puebloan ruins (AD 850 - AD 1250) while hiking daily in Chaco Canyon National Historic Park with expert guides and the noted archeologist, Virginia Wolf. Chaco Canyon National Historic Park was a major urban center of ancestral Puebloan culture between AD 850 and AD 1250, and served as a hub for ceremonial trade and administration for the prehistoric Four Corners area. Chaco is remarkable for its monumental public and ceremonial buildings, engineering projects, astronomy, artistic achievements, and distinctive architecture - an ancient urban center that still amazes and inspires us a thousand years later.

• Learn what archaeologists have to say about some of the artifacts, myths, legends, and lifeways of the Ancestral Pueblo People.
• Participate in unique hands-on exploratory activities and unforgettable small group experiences.
• Work alongside Virginia Wolf, M.A., Geography and M.A., Native American Studies and Archaeoastronomy. Since 1989 Virginia has been surveying Ute Mountain Tribal Park for Basketmaker-Early Pueblean petroglyph panels in Mancos Canyon that provide the early farmers with summer and winter solstice information. Her research has been expanded to include Chaco Canyon.
• Four Corners School guides will provide group equipment and experts that help participants interpret the human/cultural and natural components of this area. The educational nature of the Four Corners School trips and the expertise of their staff, guides and specialists are impressive. They also prepare excellent, wholesome meals!

Our program will be for the active outdoor person with hikes ranging from 1- 6.5 miles round trip, with one hike going onto the rim of the canyon overlooking some of the magnificent great houses. Our lodging will be a primitive camp area located in the park, with plenty of potable water, a tent, and group gear. Sleeping bags and pads are available.

Click here for a detailed Daily Itinerary.

Cost, $985, includes all food from dinner Day 1 through breakfast Day 6, transportation to and from Farmington, NM airport and Chaco Canyon, expert staff, guides, group equipment and park fees. Airfare, sodas/alcoholic beverages and personal items are not included. This is really an incredible price for this kind of opportunity.

To insure a reservation send $300 deposit by charge or check made payable to ADK Chaco. All but $75 is refundable. The balance of $685 will be due by Feb. 1, 2004.  The trip requires a minimum of 12 and is limited to a maximum of 28 participants. Registration, Health, Credit card Authorization, and Liability forms can be printed out, filled in, and mailed to me, or if you contact  me I can send you the forms to complete.

I hope that you will consider joining us on this exciting experience. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me: Mary Coffin, 328 Deepsprings Dr., Chittenango, N.Y. 13037. 315-687-3589. mccoffin721@worldnet.att.net.