One can often find many sorts of new places if we are just willing to get lost,(thinking we are not lost), many new fun thing's like how to climb out of a narrow almost box canyon, finding plant life of many sorts, and by looking at scat, know we are not alone on the mountain.
Of course we have walked may time around our yard and taken great care not to mess with those sharp needled plant life, with the wet weather this last winter we were waiting for the cactus to bring forth their flowers, I have seen the desert bloom before and wanted Sis Lowery to experience this.
She had also wanted me to see the Century plants that she had seen last year on a hike. My idea was less taxing and not likely to get us hurt.
Our yard is full of "Paddle " cactus and have yellow blooms, we have a couple of small round cactus that have a reddish blossom, while the century plants have large stems, big white blossom's are are very lovely, they were not so easy to get to.
Monday we went to a camp ground that had a hiking trail which we started up, so far so good.
Part way up my guide gave instructions that we were on the wrong path and needed to go over land where no man, or women had ever traveled before.
It was great we found a multitude of different canyons with steep sides, loose rocks, and debris in the bottom. Well never let it be said we would have made good pioneers cause we just went ahead and said have feet will travel.
We climbed and climbed knowing just around the bend and up that litttttle rise would be the top. Finally getting to the top we discovered that Sis Lowery had picked the only canyon that had an out let on top that we could have climbed. At least we came to that conclusion based on the fact we were not going back down that way nor try any of the other canyon's.
The view from the top would have been just as nice if we would have followed, yes you guessed it, the trail that we were on earlier. We are such intrepid explorer's.
It is fun to know that we can still get around in the mountain's without calling search and rescue.
See you soon if we don't get lost
Love Larry
