TS led us on an awesome hike just like the old days before we all
became old farts. We took off from the Rendija Canyon Trail up a
small side canyon on a rough, uphill trail that led up the old
homestead road that DH once took me down and which I've never been
able to find since. Some of the group was very slow so grandson and I
went up the old road and waited for the group.
When some of them got up but more were still coming, grandson and I
took off to find the raptor trap. It turns out that the raptor trap
on Beanfield Mesa is very close to the top of that old road. He was
in disbelief that eagles could be caught that way. After a brief
look we circled around the area to try to find a skull but no luck.
We came back to the trap when the hikers got there.
After they all looked and took their photos, we walked back on
Beanfield Mesa to the site of the homestead cabin that was toasted in
the Cerro Grande fire in 2000. Then we headed to lunch with a view.
I tried to keep grandson's lunch box from him so he wouldn't eat
snacks first but his lunch included a Reese's peanut butter cup. He
ate that to keep it from melting but didn't finish his chicken and
cheese. Regardless, he seemed fueled enough because the hike was
long and after lunch, we still had to walk quite a distance back to
the cars on the eastern branch of the Cabra Loop Trail. Grandson
scored a Barq's Root Beer at the aprés hike refreshments but saved it
to take home.
An aside: the English fellow sat on a cactus and had to privately
bare his bum to his wife so she could pull the cactus spines out.
JS, back from the Ukraine, told JB to go home and put Elmer's Glue on
the wound site, let it dry and then pull the dried glue off and the
small cacti spines would come out too. Cool tip!! Guess he'll give
his wife quite a show while he's drying the glue on his rear end!!
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