Sunday, April 1, 2012

It's Beautiful - But Won't Last

The weather has been glorious - New Mexico at its finest. Dry, clear, cool in the morning, warm during the day. And this means great hiking. After missing most of the winter hiking, I've been really getting out there and building my conditioning. This Saturday it was 8 miles on trail with some serious climbs. So I'm looking forward to getting in some of those longer hikes that I love.

Because I'm going to have to get them in soon. The beautiful weather is because once again we are short of precipitation, i.e. drought which means as the forest fire season starts (any week now) it will be only a matter of time until they shut down the forest for safety reasons until the monsoon starts.

Unedited Pure Blue New Mexico Sky

And I wouldn't be de-I without a bit of irreverence

When Gaius Derf pointed this view out my first thought was,
"Ah the Sandias, no Cialis needed"

5 comments:

terri said...

For a split second, I asked myself, "What is Cialis for?"

Then I really looked at the picture and giggled.

Jules said...

That blue sky is gorgeous!

Mike said...

LOL... "like a rock."

How long did this hike take you? When I think of attempting to climb a mountain via an eight-mile trail, in my mind, it would be an all-day event. Of course, I also have short legs.

de-I said...

Mike. I hike at about 2 miles an hour. And it was a total of 8 miles so it was 4 up and 4 back. So about 4 hours of hiking with a break in between up and down of about 15 to 20 minutes. So say a mornings worth of work.

alexis said...

oh man, that blue is enough to send me packing. In my mind anyways.