Sandstone Spine: Seeking the Anasazi on the First Traverse of the Comb Ridge

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Join three old friends for this 18-day adventure that tests their friendship in ways they had never before experienced.

Author: David Roberts; photographs: Gregg Child
Hardcover; 189 pages; full-color and black-and-white photographs
The Mountaineers Books; copyright; 2006

In the fall of 2004, three friends set off on one of the last geographic challenges left in North America: to hike the rugged Comb Ridge in one continuous push. They were Greg Child, renowned mountaineer and rock climber, age 47; Vaughn Hadenfeldt, a wilderness guide intimately acquainted with the canyonlands, age 53; and David Roberts, critically acclaimed writer, adventurer and famed mountaineer of decades past, age 61. The Comb Ridge—virtually a mini-mountain range—stretches almost unbroken for a hundred miles from just east of Kayenta, AZ, to some ten miles west of Blanding, UT. There is not a single mile of established trail in the Comb's hundred-mile reach. The challenge would prove to be a stern one. Yet Sandstone Spine is as much a cultural and personal pilgrimage as a physical one. Searching for the stray arrowhead half-smothered in the sand and for the faint markings on a far sandstone boulder that herald a little-known rock art panel, it becomes a competitive sport for these men. Along the way, they ponder several mysteries, bringing the accounts of early and modern explorers and archaeologists to bear: Who were the vanished Indians who built these inaccessible cliff dwellings and pueblos, often hidden from view? Whom where they afraid of, and why? What caused them to suddenly abandon their settlements around 1300 AD? What was their relationship to the Navajo, who are convinced the Anasazi had magical powers and could fly?

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