My favorite: "Shooting for Rain".
After a surfeit of sculptures we took the tramway up to Sandia Crest...with the longest section of suspension and ONLY one supporting stanchion... incredible. "Flights" take off only if the wind is below a certain strength...one might be stranded up there, no hotel but a restaurant open for lunch and dinner. The view towards the west is magnificent on a clear day!
Ladder to kivas, symbolizing ascent to the clouds.
The "Large" cistern, only type of water supply with the only tree (cottonwood) on the Mesa.
Looking towards a 'holy' mesa, previously inhabited. 
During a snow storm the, mostly, women and children in that pre-historic village faced death by starvation, since the 'rock hewn' staircase, the only access to the top, was destroyed. They jumped to their death or so tells the lore. The Mesa is no longer inhabited but revered as a 'holy' place.
After a surfeit of sculptures we took the tramway up to Sandia Crest...with the longest section of suspension and ONLY one supporting stanchion... incredible. "Flights" take off only if the wind is below a certain strength...one might be stranded up there, no hotel but a restaurant open for lunch and dinner. The view towards the west is magnificent on a clear day!
Later, taking off to west for Acoma Pueblo whose 'SkyCity"is still inhabited, by Acoma Indians for religious purposes.
Rock formations, breathtaking scenery. Pueblo Home on top of Mesa
Ladder to kivas, symbolizing ascent to the clouds.The "Large" cistern, only type of water supply with the only tree (cottonwood) on the Mesa.
Looking towards a 'holy' mesa, previously inhabited. 
During a snow storm the, mostly, women and children in that pre-historic village faced death by starvation, since the 'rock hewn' staircase, the only access to the top, was destroyed. They jumped to their death or so tells the lore. The Mesa is no longer inhabited but revered as a 'holy' place.The church, Indians still practice both,
indigenous and catholic religions.
On the way back to Albuquerque, we outdrove the thunderstorm brewing in the south with sheets of rain visible for miles... 
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