Dorothy trip today. I drove us to a parking place off FR36 (going on in Dome Road, FR289), not too far past Graduation Flats. We walked over to and crossed upper Spruce Canyon. It has a lovely meadow. Then we followed a road/motorcycle trail into Pines Canyon and followed it downstream for a while (an actual stream was running). We stopped when it just got too narrow and bushy for us to walk through. Also, it was steepening - there was a tiny waterfall where we turned around. It was wet in the canyon and slippery but we didn't kill ourselves.
Dorothy was searching for the old road to Pines, where there once was the ranger station for the Cochiti fire district. She didn't have the email from Harry that gave details of how the road ran but seemed to have an idea of what she was looking for and had historic maps, a current topo map, and a map from the forest service's travel management rule process.
Dorothy decided that the roads we found were probably just logging roads and were not historic roads.
We got back to my car just as it began raining and then we drove a little further on FR36, past the cattleguard, to the road that goes to the gravel pit in Pines Canyon. It was raining but not too hard. Lightning was fortunately not a factor. We left our packs in the car and walked downhill into a soggy but pretty side canyon of Pines. We turned around when the side canyon intersected Pines Canyon, just a little ways upstream from where we had gone down into Pines Canyon earlier.
Even though we didn't get very wet on our trip, it rained heavily again in Los Alamos.
We may go out next Monday to look at the old boundary of the east rim of the Baca Ranch. Dorothy wants to find the boundary markers.