Our SAR field trip April 16 to 19th

Patricia and I had signed up for a field trip sponsored by the School for Advanced Research (SAR) to an archaeological project near Truth or Consequences. On the way there we stopped at the two Salinas Mission sites we had not yet seen. First we stopped at Abó and then Gran Quivira.

The ruins of the mission at Abó.

The pictures of these two impressive ruins start here on our website.

Then we took some back roads through Lincoln County past Ruidoso to the Inn of the Mountain Gods in Mescalero where we stayed the night.

On Friday we took more back roads through Cloudcroft and through Alamogordo and stopped at White Sands National Monument. Neither Patricia nor I were expecting such an extensive are of (gypsum) sand that looked more like snow than sand.

We drove on to TorC where we met the SAR group at the Sierra Grande Inn. We stayed there for a couple of nights. Friday night Karl Laumbach (who heads up the Cañada Alamosa project) and his wife Toni gave us some background on the project. Saturday we spent 10 hours in the field driving to Cañada Alamosa and visiting a couple of the sites. It was very interesting. Patricia and I rode around with Karl and Toni all day so we got some extra information. Some of the pictures we took are posted here.