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This & next:  Organ Mountains

We decided to do our usual hike this morning:  down the LDR-A arroyo, right on the east/west cross trail, southerly up the Left Branch Arroyo, across to the middle branch, northerly down the middle to the junction of the right.

It was 64F when we headed out today, and as we ascended Right Branch Arroyo the weather conditions got cooler, an almost-chilly breeze picking up consistently.

Took the new route through the arroyo channel in the right branch, crossed out to the narrow trail east of the channel when a tree-and-yucca impediment forced us to do so, and then exited up the steep hill west of the right branch into the upper flatland.

This & next:  Barrel Cactus with fruit

Organ Mountains

Willow and Frio

This & next:  Ocotillos with yellowing leaves

This & next:  triple Barrel Cactus with fruit

Soaptree Yucca with its own flower bed

Headed up that hill soon

In the right branch