{"id":1338,"date":"2024-09-23T09:37:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2024-09-23T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:37:38","slug":"chaco-canyon-journey-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"Chaco Canyon Journey 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1339\" style=\"width: 1534px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Chaco-Earth-Walks-group-2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1339\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1339\" src=\"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Chaco-Earth-Walks-group-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1524\" height=\"1164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Chaco-Earth-Walks-group-2024.jpg 1524w, https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Chaco-Earth-Walks-group-2024-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Chaco-Earth-Walks-group-2024-1024x782.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Chaco-Earth-Walks-group-2024-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Chaco-Earth-Walks-group-2024-393x300.jpg 393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1524px) 100vw, 1524px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earth Walks Chaco Canyon 2024<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The last day of our journey we walked in early morning silence up the path to Casa Rinconada, the Great Kiva.\u00a0 As we walked up, about 12 elk were walking down the mesa.\u00a0 One of those amazing sacred moments.\u00a0 At the kiva, we shared quiet moments of reflection and ceremony.\u00a0 Ines played her hand made buffalo drum, I played the Native American flute and Michael then intoned the haunting notes of his handpan.\u00a0 Then it was time to return, back to the campsite and back home after a wonderful experience together.<\/p>\n<p>Come join us in 2025 when we return to Chaco&#8230;and maybe so will the elk!<a href=\"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Doug-Cataract-Canyon-river-raft-2022-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1342\" src=\"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Doug-Cataract-Canyon-river-raft-2022-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Doug-Cataract-Canyon-river-raft-2022-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Doug-Cataract-Canyon-river-raft-2022-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Doug-Cataract-Canyon-river-raft-2022-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Doug-Cataract-Canyon-river-raft-2022-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Doug-Cataract-Canyon-river-raft-2022-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_1297.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1340\" src=\"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_1297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_1297.jpg 640w, https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_1297-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_1297-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The last day of our journey we walked in early morning silence up the path to Casa Rinconada, the Great Kiva.\u00a0 As we walked up, about 12 elk were walking down the mesa.\u00a0 One of those amazing sacred moments.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/?p=1338\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,2,22,31,33,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaco-canyon","category-earthwalks-events","category-native-american-culture","category-native-american-history","category-native-american-mythology","category-world-heritage-site"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}