Today was the WI hike on the Bland-Frijoles Trail 113. There were only 12 of us and no Santa Fe people came along. We parked and started walking about 3 miles in on the north side of Dome Road, FR289, from its intersection with FR36.
Some pre-hike excitement was afforded me when my ride started driving away just as I had opened the back door and was attempting to get into the vehicle but fortunately I was able to step away from the moving car and wasn't hurt. The other passengers warned the driver and she stopped. She thought I was already in the car. I wasn't hurt and didn't dwell on it but it gave me some elevated heart rate when it happened and I was standing still!
Everyone enjoyed photographing the brilliant yellow aspens. The skies were bright New Mexico blue with occasional white clouds floating here and there. It was the quintessential autumn day in northern New Mexico that makes you want to just melt into the landscape and never leave!
We had lunch at the base of Rabbit Hill but didn't go up it. Instead, after lunch, we walked on a ridge between Capulin and Alamo Canyon which gave us good views into Alamo Canyon and of Pajarito Mountain and Cerro Grande. I saw lots of brilliant red barberry bushes on the ridge - very pretty!
On the way back, some of us bushwhacked straight up the ridge but I took the trail and got a ride back to my car with different hikers. It had nothing to do with the earlier mishap but I could see that the hikers who were going off-trail were going to take much longer to get back and I had to meet our daughter at 3:30pm at the Motor Vehicle Division - this time with the notarized gift affidavit in hand - to give her our old car. I got back in plenty of time and the wait was much shorter today and the transaction was successfully done - yippee!!
Today, my muscles felt fine and so did my knee. In the last two weeks, I finished the last two 50,000IU Vitamin D2 capsules and I theorize that they caused the unusual sluggishness.
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