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A few small trees, junipers or nut pines grow on top with other vegetation. It is simply a tower left by the erosion of the valley & but one of many similar and more [[drawing of tall mesa]] elaborate mesas. Another west of the Pueblo is very similar and probably not climbable. and just beyond it is a giant Cleopatras Needle of the same structure, 200 feet high & slender. [[drawing of Cleopatras Needle]]

The sides of the valley are all mesa cliffs of the same character and apparently 500-600 feet high. A few old cliff dwellings were seen in these as we passed. A good forest of nut pines & junipers covers them.