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Monday, January 28, 2013

Wind Event (Day One)

How to track a Jackrabbit
Becca and I were fortunate to get in a long hike before the wind came.  We're under an advisory for a two-day wind event that's going to kick up the dust.  When the wind is really bad the desert isn't a pleasant place to be.  Tomorrow's trek may prove to be a difficult one depending on how accurate the meteorologists are.  No doubt, Becca and I will be out there anyway.
What's this I'm looking at?

What's over there?

Tortugas and the Organs

Clouds snagged by the higher peaks

First set of Barrel twins (clones, really)

Closer to the mountains

Second set of twin Barrels

Fourth view of the mountains

3 comments:

Dr. K said...

That dead yucca is like a modernist sculpture.

Scott said...

In the past, I may have mentioned that, the day Kali and i visited Acoma Pueblo, the wind was blowing fiercely and kicking up all kinds of dust. Kali at the time wore contact lenses and had forgotten to bring her glasses with her so that she could remove the lenses and wear glasses instead. She went around the Pueblo looking like she was wearing an burkah. And, of course, her eyes and lenses got full of dust and she was miserable.

packrat said...

The wind really wreaks havoc when it's like that out here, Scott. We've been to Acoma, too, as well as to Oraibi in northern Arizona.

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