Sunday, April 19, 2020

My agave just starting to bloom
Something ate it!


I have been watching an agave on the Hermit Trail waiting for it to bloom.  Since our acting Super opened the trails to locals, I scampered down to get a picture.  Something ate it.  Some animal came along and ATE my agave.  

It was a little spooky hiking down the Hermit all alone.  It is a rough enough trail that I was a wee bit nervous about turning an ankle all by my lonesome.  Then I explored the site at the trail junction looking for somewhere that they straightened arrows.  I saw a picture of this somewhere.  Anyhow, I found an old cowboy camp and some more walls, but no rock.  THEN I started thinking that since I was off trail, I might meet a rattler and then what would happen?  

On the way out I met two locals, and then two rangers, so I guess my broken body would not have been lying on the trail for too long before someone tripped over me. 


Friday, April 17, 2020



We went into lockdown three weeks ago.  We could walk and ride bikes on the rim, but not below.  On the 15th, the acting super said locals can hike all the trails except Bass, because you have to cross the Supai Rez, and they are still closed, Marble Canyon, and the North Rim.  So we ran down to see the Redbuds.  

Note to self:  mid March is too early.  Only a few trees had started.  Mid April is too late.  Most of the trees had lost their blossoms and started to leaf out.  The three just below the Redwall were perfect.  
In March we met 300 people on this hike.  Today we saw four locals and one ranger.