Headed for Low Desert

Sign along the Grand View Trail

We did another hike on the Grand View Trail before setting off down the mountain for the lower desert, where it's currently windy as hell.  It was going to be windy in the high country as well so we weren't headed into unexpected bad weather.  Four days in the Sacramento Mountains passed by all too quickly, as days in the mountains frequently do, but we had a good time trekking at elevations between 6800 and 7200 feet.

One of the vistas from the Grand View

Scrub-Jay

Scrub-Jay

Grand View Trail (outbound)

Boulders at the cut

"What's up there?" (I can speak dog)

Blowing gypsum at White Sands National Monument

Another sign on the trail (note what the red arrow points to)

Hedgehog Cactus growing in a boulder

Grand View Trail (still outbound)

Hedgehog Cactus growing in rock

Banana Yucca and curlicues

Another Scrub-Jay

Becca and Dr. K at the ramada (inbound leg)

Lots of Scrub-Jays about this morning

Same individual

As you can surmise same Scrub-Jay

Taking a break in the shade

House-size boulders off the trail

Becca finishes a treat while Dr. K waits to give her some water