Found

After the Maze adventure, we cooked some potatoes and ravioli and loaded the bikes. We then headed east on 95 to the Cedar Mesa. We started up the dirt road in the Manti LaSal national forest around 10 and found a nice little base camp.





Next morning we loaded the bikes and made our way to a little ruin i've been trying to find for over a year. There are many photos of this on the web but no one is willing to reveal it's location. Long story short, I found it. After the long and arduous journey, it became clear while it's a rare find. According to the logbook, It hasn't seen visitors since November of 2010.






The roof is fully intact and the place hasn't been trashed like most ruins in the cedar mesa. Yet another testament to the fact that it's rarely visited.





Here's a photo looking back as we climbed out of the canyon. Truly magical. Can't wait to take the kids back. Located literally 5 minutes from the parking.






After the 50 mile ride to the "secret" ruin, we had a quick bagel sandwich and made our way south to the "Citadel" ruin. While obtaining a permit, I just had to show the ranger a photo from my iPhone of our secret ruin. They had never seen or heard of it and offered to reveal some other ruins in exchange for it's location. I politely declined. It sure was fun to taunt the ranger with some "eye candy".




The citadel was truly cool. Located at the end of that rock peninsula, it must have been a lookout or defense location.






I felt like I was stuck inside a rock version of Mario. There were huge rock mushrooms everywhere.






I love to mix cactus and anasazi homes. Even the cactus looked like a mushroom.





Definitely not a place I would have let my little anasazi kids play.



Just a quick photo of the blog station. Talk about a geek fest.