I won't be writing much about this hike because it's been a very busy day. It starts at Porter Landing which is just downstream from where the Rio Cebolla and the Rio de las Vacas conflue to form the Rio Guadulupe. We drove in on FR376 which is a very good, all weather road. Even though it rained until after lunch, the road was safely driveable on the way home - very well drained.
We right away on the hike reached a river crossing. John and Jill, the English couple, didn't continue any further because they didn't want to tackle the crossing. Chuck dropped his miniature digital camera in the river and found out that it is very waterproof, as advertised!
Right before lunch, we had a second river crossing. It stopped raining shortly after lunch and we went back the way that we walked in - no one fell in the river. It got very pretty and sunny with blue skies in the afternoon. That area along FR376 and the Rio Cebolla is really lovely.
I got home in the afternoon and just had enough time to do a load of laundry (my pants got very muddy), eat supper and get ready to pick up daughter and grandson at 5pm to take them to the PEEC outing, led by Chris Judson, on Burnt Mesa. It was raining on the drive there but perfectly good weather for the outing. Disappointingly, only 7 people, counting us three, showed up. Daughter and grandson spread out a blanket and had their supper.
Tomorrow is the Santa Fe trip to get the locks repaired on my car.
I have signed up for Advanced Beginning Spanish (per the instructor's advice) through UNM-LA's community education. It will be on Wednesdays from 6-8pm, through November. I hope I don't regret this!