Pagosa's neighbors to the south have a vibrant art tradition that lives today along the shores of Abiqui Lake. A short drive takes you to rewarding places and visions. Anytime is good but go June 21-22 for the studio tour. Watch this page over the next few weeks for more examples of Pedernal art.
On Saturday, the School for Advanced Research sponsored a field trip to Tsi-p'in-owinge Pueblo. Tsi-p'in-owinge means Village at Flaking Stone Mountain. It was probably inhabited from the late thirteenth century through the mid-fifteenth, abandoned before the Spanish came to New Mexico.
Tsi-p'in-owinge is on a mesa above the town of Caņones, above Abiquiu, between Ghost Ranch and Cerro Pedernal. Georgia O'Keeffe fans will recognize some of those places. Caņones is a very tucked-away New Mexico village. The trail to Tsi-p'in-owinge used to start in Caņones. But too many people looking in windows, asking directions, disrupted the residents' lives, so we used the new trail, eight switchbacks down from a still-higher mesa. We stopped at Bode's General Store in Abiquiu for delicious breakfast burritos, and then drove up a Forest Service road to the trailhead.
See above article here.
See photos of Pedernal Mountain here.
See maps and touring information here.
Samples of Pedernal art updated.
