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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Back Behind the Mountain Again

On the dirt road behind Tortugas
Since we weren't meeting anyone for the final quarter of our hike, Becca and I headed around Tortugas Mountain from the Sunset Parking area.  We did about three-fourths of the hike circumnavigating the mountain, but decided to double back for several reasons:  it added extra distance to the hike (and I felt like being out there longer), and we avoided the Dripping Springs Road leg of the hike, which often has significant traffic traveling east/west along the route.  We saw nobody in the outback during our extended trek.
Wind-caused haze around the Organ Mountains

Moon over Tortugas's southwestern flank

Heading down a steep trail east of the Tortoise

This bird nest resembled an American football, and was as large as one

3 comments:

Dr. K said...

Nice to have the time for a long hike in this beautiful weather.

Scott said...

I very much like the overall look of the second hazy image of the desert and the "hazy" Organ Mountains.

Today (Friday) we have pretty dense fog that's supposed to dissipate when we get thunderstorms. I doubt that we'll achieve the forecast high of 58 (because the fog is persisting far longer than the forecasters had predicted), but it's nice to be well above freezing regardless. Now, all I need is for AmeriGas to finally make a propane delivery; we've been without our normal heating system for 1-1/2 weeks because AmeriGas ran out of propane; fortunately, we still have the old oil burner in the house so we're not freezing.

packrat said...

Thank you, Scott.

It's always something isn't it? Glad to hear at least that you haven't been freezing.

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