Sunday, May 23, 2010

A High Country Adventure - Part One - A Snowy Surprise


Snow on the Cabin



Snow on Trees


Snow on Woodpile

We got a snowy surprise upon our arrival at the mountain cabin. There was a light snow of about 4 inches during the night that left most everything covered in the white stuff. Apparently I didn't wait long enough for the snow to melt. There was an easy solution to this problem.

A warm fireplace!




A Warm Fireplace

The snow melted pretty fast and the snow melt could be seen running off the mountains in numerous places. This left most of the streams running pretty fast.



Mountain Snow Melt


The Rio Pueblo was running quite swiftly due to the run-off and was quite impressive when compared with it's usual water flow.




Rio Pueblo at Sipapu

This was a great start to a high country adventure!

Staying above the snow line!

Riverwalker (aka, Mountainwalker)

4 comments:

Mayberry said...

Beautiful spot RW!

Riverwalker said...

To: Mayberry

Elevation: Just over 9,000 feet

Location: On the edge of the Carson National Forest in Northern New Mexico

Average Daily Temperatures:

Low Temp: Mid 30's

High: Upper 50's

It's a big change from South Central Texas! Wished I could have stayed longer.

Thanks.

RW

Anonymous said...

That is beautiful - sounds like a place to sit and do some contemplatin', even if its just your navel, lol. Upper 50's - groan, high 90's here all this week and the next 4 - 5 months shouldn't change as well. Enjoy it while you got it.

riverwalker said...

To: anonymous 7:10

It was over way too soon. I need to spend more time out of doors and less time inside.

Thanks anon!

RW

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