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BANDELIER NATIONAL MONUMENT

Frijoles Canyon in Snow

For the Ancestral Pueblo people, living at 6,000’ elevation meant pleasant summers and frost any time from mid-October into May. For this farming people, both the short summers and arid climate would have been challenging.

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