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Monday, September 19, 2022

Return to First Arroyo

Tortugas Mountain (left) and the Organs
Dr. K, Willow, Frio and I were back in our usual haunt this morning, but we didn't follow our normal route due to two factors:  one, someone shooting a gun in the vicinity of Left Branch Arroyo, and, two, the wet grass and weeds we'd have to trek through after last night's rain.

So what we did instead was an old hike we often did in the past:  down LDR-A, over to LDR, and then a straight shot out to First Arroyo and back retracing the same route.

We saw nobody else in our section of desert, and a good time was had by all.

LDR-A

Rain droplets in bush

Tortugas and the Organs

Frio and Willow heading north on LDR

Looking south on LDR

This & next:  Tortugas and the Organs again


Desert Zinnia

Looking west inside First Arroyo

Frio and Willow with Dr. K in First Arroyo

Fringed Amaranth, Creosote, Ocotillos & Soaptree Yucca

Silly game of "spot the raptor"

Lucky Stone and friends

 

1 comment:

Dr. K said...

Lovely image of the rain droplets from last night's surprising storm.

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