Monday, August 24, 2009


Hiked to three mile. Nice clouds in the morning with sunbeams and all. Picked up a bottle, a pocket full of paper.

Suffering an eye infection, but it is finally getting better. Had to "dope" my eye six times on the way out. Met Karen, volunteer PSAR and helped hassle hikers for a while. "Going to the River and back? Starting at 9:30? Where would you like the body buried?"

Discussed the guy who wants to reduce his possessions to 100 total. Maybe if I didn't have to count books. So how many packs, as an example, does one woman need? Fanny pack, racing pack, day-and-a-half pack (guide pack), overnight pack, week-long pack, computer pack for school...apparently six. Worse yet, I have five tents and I never sleep in a tent.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009


Number one son and I drove to the Great Sand Dunes where he managed to bring back most of one dune in his clothes. Thence to Buena Vista to visit friends, and then Arches to mess around in the desert. I have a nasty eye infection, so we couldn't hike as much as we wanted (well, as much as I wanted).

Saturday, August 8, 2009



It was cold this morning: 45, so we hiked down the Hermit to Santa Maria for a change. Picked up a bag of nasty trash at the reptile tracks. But the light was very nice for pictures of said tracks.

Lilo Pizo, no one cares that you hiked to Santa Maria. And the Squirt Bottle of Retribution has erased your puny efforts at immortality.

Also saw a huge fossil fern which we moved off the trail so it doesn't get stepped on or stolen.

Told one gal it was too hot to hiked below Santa Maria and she laughed. I wonder if she's laughing now that it's over 80 on the rim and 100 in the bottom?

Sunday, August 2, 2009


Had a Meet the Canyon yesterday and the Bighorn mamas and babies were behind the TB grazing. Today we saw a wee baby fawn just above mile and a half. It was so young it was still nursing, but mama was scared of us and led it up the hill to get away. It was hot at 8 AM, don't know what these people are thinking when they head down, particularly the young ladies in bikinis. Nice sunrise with some clouds, though.