Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Agate House in Petrified Forest NP

Last Wednesday our volunteer hours were spent roving the park.  That means we take a park vehicle and hike where we want in uniform and answer questions asked by visitors.  We went to Blue Mesa trail, Long Logs and Agate House trails as well as Puerco Pueblo .  We can count the minutes talking to visitors about the park as informal interpretations and keep track of these statistics for the park. Hard volunteer hours, huh???!!!! 
In the south end of the park there is a hike to petrified wood plueblo ruins called Agate House, one room of which has been reconstructed with roof.  The floodplain beyond is where people grew crops.

John, in uniform, is looking at the ruins.  If we hike with uniforms it is considered volunteer hours. 


The wall of Agate House


These are pictures taken from our Blue Mesa rove/hike.  Can you see the petrified log on the left upper corner?


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