Thursday's hike with the Ad Hoc group was on Burnt Mesa. The trail was nicely dried out. I have to admit that even though I don't like tripping over the logs embedded across the trail at frequent intervals, they do a superb job of keeping the trail from getting cupped. Walking on a flat trail surface instead of in a ditch is so much easier.
It was a very windy day - blowing at our back on the way out. When the group decided to turn around about 1 1/2 miles in, they realized the wind would be in their face. I continued another mile or so to the trail's end where you can look over into Frijoles Canyon and see the Long Trail in Bandelier National Monument. It was truly a hat-brim-flipping wind on the return journey. I saw three other hikers. Bet they also had read on the Los Alamos Trails Facebook page that the Burnt Mesa Trail was in fine condition and we all went for it!
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| San Miguel Mountains, which include Boundary Peak and St. Peter's Dome, from Burnt Mesa. |
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| Snowy, south side of Pajarito Mountain from Burnt Mesa Trail. |
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