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Monday, March 26, 2018

Heavy Overcast

Sky at start
The temperature was about 60F when Becca and I started off west of Tortugas Mountain this morning, and as you can see from the images it was heavily overcast the entire way.  Our high is supposed to be 66F, a whopping 6 degree climb.  We ran into our pal Raymond on our outbound leg; he's back from trying life in Denver for a month.  Too cold, he said.  On our way in we encountered our friend Jimmy, and he and I stood talking for nearly half an hour.  As is always the case Becca was ecstatic at seeing him.
Sky at start 2

Has an animal eaten all the Claret Cup Cactus buds?

Allthorn

Mormon Tea starting to flower

Closeup of Mormon Tea buds

The way it looked the entire hike

Long shot to the mountains

Getting closer to Tortugas

1 comment:

Dr. K said...

I like that closeup of the Mormon tea buds. It looks like the weather will be gloomy all day.

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