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Saturday, August 15, 2015

Talk About Convenience

Setting off
Before we headed down the mountain to our Chihuahuan Desert home (where it was supposed to be 102 F [39 C] today) we did a hike on the Grand View Trail, which is a short fifteen-minute drive from our cabin in High Rolls.  We trekked for 80 minutes before returning to our place, doing a little cleaning, packing and driving down the mountain, through the Tularosa Basin past White Sands, over the Organ Mountains and down into the Mesilla Valley.  We're not looking forward to the next few days of century-mark temperatures in the lower desert.
White gypsum of White Sands National Monument

Mexican Barberry

Lincoln National Forest near High Rolls

Down the Grand View Trail

Dr. K and Becca near a small Sotol

Allthorn

More Mexican Barberry

Mexican (or Red) Barberry was fruiting all along the trail

Our elevation at the midway point

Packrat and Becca

4 comments:

Scott said...

It's forecast to be in the low to mid 90s every day here for the next 10 days, Packrat, and no rain in sight. It's not the 100s, of. Purse, but it is still a long, protracted week-plus of misery.

Scott said...

Sorry for the weird typing in my last comment. I'm typing on my iPad.

packrat said...

Good thing you told me about the typing, Scott. I thought you were drunk. :)

Your upcoming heatwave sounds pretty unpleasant. Here in LC we've only had a few 100-degree-plus days, so I can't really complain. Problem is, though, we're way above normal for this time of year--by ten degrees or more. In High Rolls we got up to 86 F one day, but the nights were wonderful, low 60s; so when I walked around the property with Becca in the mornings it felt absolutely great. Hard to return here after that.

Dr. K said...

At least we were able to get one last hike in before going down into the desert.

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