and finally news from the desert trip:

written with one foot out the window

One of the first hikes we wanted to do was off the Burr Trail. I needed to get a 12-mile run in, and so we camped at our Cottonwood Tree spot and then SOP hit the road in the truck and i hit the road with my feet, meeting at the turnoff for Lampstand, a.k.a. Ginstand.

The fields around lampstand had been chained this year. I believe it is done to clear out the Juniper, also known as Cedar in these parts, and allow some more grasses to grow for grazing.

freshly chained

One of the cool things we saw this day was a rattlesnake - a RED rattlesnake! I saw him, he saw us, he rattled and shimmied, we shot (photos).

bad photo, cool snake

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