Yucca Ropes: The DIY Ancestral Puebloan Static Line by Len Necefer

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In the late 1300s, experts point to drought and other environmental stressors impacting the Puebloan people in the Southwest leading toward societal collapse. My people, the Diné, the Athabaskan-speaking migrants from the north, also began to place pressures on these societies. Resources like food and water became increasingly scarce, and preventing theft or raids by…

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Yucca Ropes: The DIY Ancestral Puebloan Static Line by Len Necefer

Len Necefer of Natives Outdoors reflects on the ancient use of yucca ropes for climbing by the Ancestral Puebloans. From The Climbing Zine.

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