WRSC hiking group - good company but not good exercise. They are too slow to deem their walks good exercise so I just consider it a rest day. They wanted to hurry back to the potluck for May birthday so only hiked about two miles total - up Frijoles Canyon to Alcove House and back.
We saw a huge tree that was felled by our recent heavy winds. The fellow with us who volunteers at Bandelier said the park service will give the wood to San Ildefonso. Until one of those giant ponderosas are down for the count, you can't begin to conceive of the massive amount of wood it contains. The roots were massive too but unbalanced, thicker on one side than the other. The flaw of the ponderosas is a shallow root system.
We saw some hikers going off-trail to visit some of the cavates that are off limits except on tours with a ranger. We hollered over that they weren't supposed to be there.
I really wanted to attempt the ladders at Alcove House but spouse was eager to get back to the gift shop to buy a Zia symbol T-shirt and then to buy a burrito at the snack bar. He had an appointment at UNM-LA regarding the class he will teach and afterward we had to run to Santa Fe - he to pick up a prescription and I to get my biennial mammogram.
Our warm, sunny weather predominates, courtesy of our drought.
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