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| Looking back just after starting on T105 |
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| Cutleaf Coneflowers |
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| Left to the Cathey Canyon Trail |
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| The forest floor was filled with mushrooms |
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| Dr. K beside a tripartite Aspen |
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| How old was this tree? |
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| The trail comes through here |
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| A look down from the Cathey Canyon Trail |
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| This Aspen toppled right over, probably in high wind |
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| More 'shrooms |
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| Proof of last night's rain |
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| The view of the Tularosa Basin from Cathey Vista |
6 comments:
All of these photos are beautiful. And it's a treat to see 2 butterflies on the same flower.
My favorite hike on the Appalachian Trail here in Pennsylvania begins with a 600-foot ascent over a distance of a half-mile, so I know where of you speak. Of course, I'm not hiking at any significant altitude here, so the challenge is even greater for you.
You're pretty adventurous to tackle a hike with no assurance that the trail would lead where you wanted to end up.
I really like the image of the butterfly (a fritillary?) midway through the set of images today. Good job!
Awesome scenery! Some of your butterflies are similar to ones we have here - we do have Monarchs. Shame you can't add woodland smells to the photos. Oh well...
Dr. K: Those two butterflies were on each other as much as they were on the flower.
Scott: Looks like a Great Spangled Fritillary to me.
As far as tackling the Cathey Canyon Trail with no certainty of where it would end up, I kept telling Dr. K, "If it begins ascending and turning significantly to the right I think we'll be okay." But the thought of turning back did cross our minds several times.
Thanks Jacqui. Perhaps soon people will be able to get an app that allows a scratch-and-sniff feature to be added to a blog. Wouldn't surprise me to learn somebody's working on it right now.
:)
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