Although the weather was supposed to be cold and windy today, it was beautiful and perfect hiking weather. At the Alamo Canyon Rim, we went a short distance to the east and were awed by a passel of spiral petroglyphs on the perfect canvas of orange volcanic tuff. We walked over to the top of the "staircase" down into Alamo Canyon and were glad we didn't have to go down it. We saw a solitary tarantula on the way back.
Some things I forgot to write about yesterday:
I could smell smoke - a sweet smell like someone nearby smoking a pipe filled with vanilla flavored tobacco. There was haze hanging on the upper reaches of Pajarito Mountain so it's possible the ski club was doing some burning.
Someone has newly marked with orange flagging an extension of the snowshoe trail, off the lower road, alongside the rim of Cañada Bonita Canyon.
The biggest problem with my understanding the Nordic ski trails is that they don't seem to entirely jive with the posted forest service map of the trail system.
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