Sunday Sunlight

 

The setting sun lights up a bluff at Ghost Ranch.  This is Zoltan's and my view as we head home after four nights on the Rio Chama in August of this year. The photo was taken at the intersection of Forest Road 151 and U. S. Highway 84, about five miles from where our river trip concluded at Big Eddy Takeout.

Note:  Click on image to enlarge.

  

Three-4-Thursday

What Happens on the San Juan River ...

Chinle Wash

 

 

 

 

An unexpected sighting on top of the ridge high above Chinle Creek, in an area above the top-most cliff dwelling.

We can only speculate as to what happened to the ancient peoples who once inhabited this area.  They left only a few clues behind.  

Slickhorn Gulch 

 

What were you expecting to see in the plunge pools of Slickhorn Gulch?  Water nymphs?  I found no bathing beauties -- only Zoltan, Michael, and Mike attempting to rinse off some of the river sand, mud, and dust accumulated over the prior seven days.

   

Wednesday Wildlife

 

A caracara strikes a regal pose during a presentation by the "eagle lady" at Guadalupe River State Park on January 11, 2009.

Susan, on the other hand ...

 

Two-4-Tuesday

A River Runs Through It

Views of the San Juan River while climbing the Honaker Trail on September 21.  The elevation gain from the river to the top is more than 1,200 feet.

I guess you could say the scenery was pretty spectacular.

Note:  Click on any photo to enlarge.
    

Sunday Sunlight

Sunrise on August 18, 2012, at Aragon Campsite on the Rio Chama.  Jon Carlson is one of the first to greet the morning sun.

  

Three-4-Thursday

San Juan River - Not a Dodge Ram

Michael observes a desert bighorn sheep that had come down to the river to drink.  As with all of the other bighorn sheep we saw during our nine days on the San Juan River, this mature ram was on the Navajo Nation side of the river.  But it was the only bighorn we spotted which was not part of a family group.

Note:  Click on any photo to enlarge.

The ram was not particularly shy.

 

In fact, he seemed to be posing for the photographer.

 

Two-4-Tuesday

San Juan River - This Old House

"River House" near Mile 5.9

Cliff dwelling high over Chinle Wash