La Bajada, March 15 2009


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Obligatory dead tree shot A little grumpy at the beginning... A great early spring day.
Failed .com baseball cap? Check. Garmin GPS? Check. Ancient Adidas shirt? Check. (I'm not cool.) Sydney and I are at the top in the middle of the photo if you look carefully. The thing with kids and walking sticks and stuff like that is that they get tired of them at some point and you have to carry them....
Really nice views of the range land south of Santa Fe. We could see Cochiti lake from some angles. One of the 60 times she hopped on a rock and said, "Now take a picture." I started it, though, I asked her to do the first one... You can see Cochiti lake in this one in the middle at the top, it's not huge.
I left the family with .5 miles to go and they hydrated and ate trail mix. I went cactus kicking and made it to the top of the mesa-type-thing, and there were a couple of trucks and SUVs camped out and setting up hang gliders. The ground actually tilted t Little signs of spring; the juniper's looking bright, the yucca's looking yuccy, and the chamisa out here was very green.
Almost back to the truck. We crossed the Santa Fe "River" on the way out, and there were cows grazing. There had been some ducks in the water, too, but they flew away when I tumbled down for the photo. Supposedly, if you fallow the "river" to where it gets close to those rocks we  
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Description: I forced the family to get out and do a little geocaching today. We were near a ghost town called La Bajada, and it was quite a climb. We saw some walls and stuff, but I don't think we ever saw the actual "city center" of the ghost town. I ran out of time and never found the cache, but I got within 2 feet. Beautiful afternoon...
Location: La Bajada, NM