Thursday, February 16, 2017

Ponderosa Campground-Frijoles Canyon




Wednesday, on Upper Crossing Trail, starting from Ponderosa Campground, looking upward at cleft in Apache Spring Mesa (my made-up name). Five fast hikers are ahead of me. They have a big task - go all the way to Bandelier Headquarters in Frijoles Canyon. Mine is only to amble down into Frijoles Canyon and right back up.


And amble I did, stopping to look at these pretty, snowy woods. The trail was snow-covered in places and trending to frozen mud in others.


Alas, whilst in Frijoles Canyon, I took no photos but saw these quirky turkey tracks on the mesa top while walking back. These are apparently very hardy turkeys as their tracks wandered everywhere! Oh, digress for a moment back to Frijoles Canyon: At the second crossing of the Rito de los Frijoles, for one brief, wild moment, I envisioned continuing downstream to Bandelier Headquarters and hitching a ride back to Ponderosa Campground but instead, lazily walked back up to the mesa top. The Rito, though, was running finely after our Monday snowfall.

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