Hedgehog #cactus update: three of six buds blooming now. (The other two hedgehogs that flowered this year are already done.) I like the "onion dome" look of the buds too. #bloomscrolling
The hedgehog cacti are finally starting to bloom. The prickly pear too: these prickly pears more often have yellow flowers, and I don't know what makes them sometimes orange instead. #bloomscrolling#NewMexico
It took some exploring to find our way out of the box canyon to the top of the box: the old trail has washed out. Then more wandering to find a route around the deep canyon and over to Kitchen Mesa.
The top of Kitchen Mesa is startlingly white: the Todilto formation, dolomite and gypsum. The Kitchen Mesa trail goes through the old Ceolophysis #dinosaur quarry. The whole area is beautiful Colorado Plateau #geology.
Please, need some help from #bikerepair experts (like @pws ):
I'm looking to put a better suspension fork with 1-1/8" steerer tube on an old Cannondale with 1-1/4" steerer.
I see lots of recommendations for the Problem Solvers 2-piece headset reducer, and it's cheap and simple, but that type of reducer doesn't have a curved/slanted seat where it would ride on the existing bearings. Do I need the multi-piece type of reducer that includes its own bearings?
#Hiking to the Broken Mesa #ruins yesterday. Most of the snow and mud is gone, and the weather was perfect -- we finished just before the wind got high. #NewMexico
Starting to run across more websites that don't work on #firefox (even with default settings and no JS/ad blocking). Latest were a bank and a video doctor consultation. Sigh. Feels like I'm back in the good old "only works with IE" days.
Our planned hike up the Long Trail in Bandelier fizzled when it turned out the ranger's report "all the trails are snow-free" actually means "the Long Trail is ice and snow over its entire length". So we opted for a shorter hike on the always-beautiful Frey trail.
In the photo, see that white stripe going up the mesa to the left? That's the Long Trail.
We just caught a mole in an indoor mousetrap! (Live trap.) First time I've seen one in #NewMexico . Crappy photo while it's still in the trap; I may or may not manage to snap a pic fast enough when we release it.
Searching for species turns out to be difficult: 99% of the hits for mole new mexico are for the Mexican food dish.
mole "new mexico" -chicken
does a little better, and gets a UNM page that says there are no moles in NM. Hmm.
Yesterday we explored the White Ridge #mtb Bike Trails, north of Albuquerque #NewMexico near San Ysidro. Some trails were much easier than expected; others so much harder that we ended up stuck in a box canyon and had to take the long way out. The Dragon's Back was fun, though. https://shallowsky.com/blog/bike/white-ridge-bike-trails.html