First Arroyo Today

Ocotillo

Not much to say about our hike today:  up to and back from First Arroyo on a cool 51F desert morning.  We're headed for a high of 88F, and tomorrow we're supposed to reach 93F.  93 in the middle of October is well over ten degrees above normal.  They say a cold front is pushing in on Wednesday, though.

Saw nobody on our brief sojourn in the northern Chihuahuan Desert.

Soaptree and the observatory

Mesquite and the mountains

This and the next:  Willow and Frio

Looking east in First Arroyo

This and the next:  deadwood

Heelers

This and the next 4:  Soaptree Yuccas

Heelers again

This and the next:  close up of a Soaptree Yucca

This and the next:  same Prickly Pear Cactus

View from west of Tortugas Mountain looking back