Hard Leaving the High Country

Looking into the Tularosa Basin from on high

We got a really early start on the Grand View Trail this morning, then returned to our place in High Rolls to finish packing for our trip down to the lower Chihuahuan Desert.  It was really difficult to leave today.  75F for a high in the high country; 91F and blowing dust in the desert.  Not a hard choice, but we had to come back.  A week up there really makes you want to stay much longer.  Too bad about the whole "obligations" thing.

Tooling along the trail

Becca wanted to follow, but it was too precarious

New Mexico Rails-to-Trails Ramada

The deck I built for our cabin (Not!)

Dr. K and Becca inside the ramada

Lots of cactus growing in rock around here

Impatient to keep moving

Apache Plume flower

What are they looking at?

Waiting on the outbound leg (of the hike)

Pointed in the right direction

Scrub Jay

Closer look

Did I give you permission to photograph me?

The view across a juniper/pinyon forest

Dead tree

Wide section of the Grand View Trail

Cactus on a cliff

Will sing for supper

White Sands from the Grand View Trail