LL Gang Goes to Burnt Mesa Eagle Traps

There were 16 of us. I took 11 waypoints but when I got home, I realized I could save lots of time by just importing the HANNM gpx cache into TOPO! and, voila, there was the map with virtually no work on my part! We went cross country, taking a ridge to the two Eagle Traps and then went back to the Burnt Mesa Trail and out to the very end for lunch. Eagle Traps would be a destination themselves some day.

On the way back, one of the leaders wanted to get to the road quicker so I went with her and we waited for her husband to pick us up. It was harder than anticipated because we had to cross a canyon and go up a cliff but, following a game trail, we did all right. It did cut off 3/4 mile (our mileage was 7.11 and rest of gang's mileage was right around 8) but we lost any time gained in our negotiating the canyon and cliff. People back at the trailhead were getting worried. We both stayed upright, though, and that counts for something! ; D

Grandson came over tonight. Spouse trying to teach him Scrabble.

Dorothy hike in Valle Canyon to look for big trees.

May have to take car into Santa Fe. I'll evaluate tomorrow if I am still hearing new noise.

Made CD of family records that I'll take into FHC next week to see it it works on a PC. I have a Mac. I'm anguishing a bit over fact that I carelessly left names of living persons in notes of non-living; I did remove all names of living and their own notes in the actual individual records but one could easily put two and two together from the notes, for instance, for my father which mention my name. Will it really matter, though, in 100 years! Also, I don't remember but maybe I maligned someone in the notes. Hopefully those people won't be doing genealogy research. No one ever said that I was perfect!

Went to Los Alamos Reservoir yesterday. It's in pretty awful shape. I wonder when it will be rehabilitated? The water from Los Alamos creek goes through a pipe underneath the dam's spillway. It looks like at one time it was supposed to go through a pipe all along one side of the reservoir but the pipe is broken and leaks so much now. Water is pooling in the reservoir bed and spring peepers were singing. Pretty sound but not a pretty sight. The place is so devastated. A reminder of better days was the stonework that shored up the trail that used to go around the reservoir.

In contrast, the Devaney Trail is better than it was. I remember it as a thoroughly awful and steep trail that went straight up the north-facing side of Los Alamos Canyon but it's been re-routed and goes up more gradually. Also, in the area of the Research Park's parking lot, gabion baskets have fixed the washouts that were occurring.