I probably didn't get started until sometime after 2:30pm. I parked on the Reservoir Road entrance, just off West Road. I didn't see a single soul. There was some thin ice in some of the streamlets flowing on the Reservoir Road.
As I walked up-canyon, I kept wondering about the Cerro Grande fire behavior. The north facing side had obviously been badly burnt and was now a cascade of golden grass. There was a swath of unburnt conifers in the canyon proper that had not burnt probably because they were full of moisture. On the south facing side of the canyon, it reminds me in places of the west facing slopes of Valle Canyon. It has lots of bare stone cliff bulwarks that are unbelievably towering. I can see in places that the trees burnt but in others, live trees still march uphill.
The Reservoir itself looks like as much a wreck as ever. I went just to the western end of the dry gulch that was once the verdant Los Alamos Reservoir.
Think I'd like to do middle Los Alamos Canyon starting from NM-501 as an out and back since I already did the paved part from the ice rink to past the decommissioned Omega Reactor.
My foot behaved wonderfully again. I wonder if my stopping the supplemental Vitamin D, except 1 teaspoon a day of 400IU Vitamin D from Carlson Cod Liver Oil, has anything to do with my miraculous recovery?
I tried out the Vasque Synergist midcut hiking boot today. It's very basic - rubber not Vibram sole and no Gore-Tex lining. That makes it lighter and less likely to aggravate my right foot. On the REI reviews of this shoe, people talked about how it doesn't have much cushioning from rocks underfoot and I can testify to that. It didn't really hurt my foot but it's certainly not as comfortable as the Brooks Adrenaline GTS-8. I'll evaluate it some more in the next weeks.
Have an appointment next week to be evaluated for physical therapy in town. Still waiting to hear from orthotics guy in Albuquerque. Feel kind of stupid going to Albuquerque tomorrow to exchange the wrong size Aircast since I've made a miraculous recovery. I'll ask them about returning it and taking it off my health insurance.