Tired - went to bed around midnight got up at 6:30am. In middle of night was having stomach pains so curled up in fetal ball until they went away.
Drove in on west FR144 about 7.7 miles in from NM126 and started walking south along rim of Valle San Antonio/San Antonio Canyon for about 3.52 miles. Returned to Dorothy's Honda CRV via road. Total hike was 4.96 - let's call it five. Saw some people sitting in lawn chairs at edge of San Antonio Canyon, just taking in the view like they were at the beach. People were camping along and near FR144 yet we never felt like we were in a crowd like the Bandelier experience yesterday. We got almost to where we would have been on the canyon rim directly across from the San Antonio Hot Springs but I couldn't see the actual hot springs with my binocs. We made a cairn where we turned around and Dorothy waypointed it and that's where we'll pick up 3 weeks from now. The cairn is about 5.6 miles in from NM26.
The next two weeks will be north rim explores where we meet Ed down at the WR Y. Dorothy says that she may have some future assignments for explores volunteers can do while carrying a copy of her permission letter.
Oh, Dorothy's close focusing binocs are Celestron Rangers from Eagle Optics. She said they cost $300 when she bought them a few years back but now a lot more brands are available because close focusing binoculars became so popular. Hers are such excellent quality that she can focus on a piece of grass in her hand.
I had so many ideas of hikes I'd like to do in the Jemez but tomorrow I'll have to spend some time in the morning calling roofers and then go out in the afternoon for something close by.
Dorothy and I went up to look at the flower on the in the woods off Camp May Road and she took a photo and a specimen for the PEEC herbarium.
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