Post Hump Day Hike

Watching somebody on the mountain

It's still very hot here in the northern Chihuahuan desert; we're supposed to be in the mid-80s, but we're in the mid-90s, and frankly I'm very tired of the heat.  We should be slipping into autumn by now, but it still feels like mid-summer.  Not much to do about it, but complain.  Becca took her requisite number of shade breaks on our lengthy hike--four--and stayed long enough each time to recover from the heat.  She drank a lot of water, too; we both did.  There were a quite a few cars in the Sunset Parking lot, but we only ran into two other hikers--an elderly man and woman who were headed for Geothermal Road.

In a sandy arroyo

Well-deserved shade break

In the arroyo looking back at Tortugas Mountain

Smallest lizard I've ever seen--size of my thumb

Sunny break in the shade