Heading South to NE Arizona

Face it, most of the folks in the Four Corners live in Colorado. The second most live in New Mexico, but once you head west, you are getting to some wild and lonely country. I hadn't really given it much thought until I started worrying that maybe the lack of information about those states on this blog reflected my own personal bias. So, to make up for that, it was time to fire up the search engine and see what I was missing.

Yesterday, the focus was on SE Utah, today its time to explore NE Arizona. NE Arizona is like a black hole in that it is not public land. It's pretty empty but it's a separate sovereign nation, parceled out in allotments to it's citizens. As a nation, however, it is totally horse crazy. Everyone seems to own some horses and there is a cowboy culture of true horsemanship and endless rodeo.

TOURIST ACCESS POINTS:

• Horse Camping in the Canyon de Chelly


• Ron-D-View Pack Mule Trip into Canyon de Chelly - Chinle, Arizona
  DATES FOR 2007: MAY 4-7, MAY 8-11 $900 Per Person Chances are that Ron is already sold out for this year. His trips are extremely popular.

NAVAJO HORSEMANSHIP:

• Rodeo is Life


• Dine College Rodeo Program


• Coyotes Game best rodeo schedule I could find. Has 2007.


• Kayenta Rodeo Association Be sure to check out the little guy riding the ram!

NAVAJO CULTURE:

• Diné Bikeyah


• Discover Navajo

Then there is the extremely important Navajo Saddle Blanket: