Starting the Week Off Right

Steep section of trail

The best way to start off a Monday-morning hike?  By running into only two joggers during a very long trek.  In the distance across the desert we saw Mr. Tacoma driving his Toyota pickup along the dirt road leading to Tellbrook  Road.  Coming up close behind him was a New Mexico State Police officer in his SUV.  It may have been pure coincidence, of course, but I had the feeling that the cop wanted to catch up to him for some reason.

Western slope

Heading into a deep arroyo

A-bomb near El Paso?

Interesting cloud shapes

West face of the Organ Mountains

Mr Tacoma zipping across the desert with . . .

a university police officer apparently in pursuit

Sprawling in the sand

What?

Out west of Tortugas and the Organs