As we were leaving the dining room, these wispy clouds came in, I think generated by the sun hitting the air. Cool, cool morning. Frost on the windshield cool.

With a big, hot breakfast on board we headed out down the trail to The Window of last night’s sunset photograph.

Here’s the mountain face to our right, to the north, as we began our descent.

Look at that! A Mexican jay.

You can tell it’s chilly…and windy. I have my coat on over three layers and am glad I can stuff my hands in my pockets. Yes, I have on a windproof neck buff, ear band, and a baseball cap—all of them. That’s the left or southwest wall of the Chisos Basin behind me.

That gap is the Window that we’re descending toward. That’s the desiccating blossom stalk of a Havard agave, if I remember right.

Detail of a boulder we had to go around. It looks different than most of the other rocks around this immediate area.

Lookee over there! Way over there, thankfully…long lens…a trio of bears, perhaps a mom and two cubs. They were way up on the slope to our left and pretty far away and not interested in us. Whew.

Getting closer to the window. Are those clouds coming in? I promised the Guru we had to go early so we wouldn’t be out in the heat of the day…but where’s the heat???? 😉

We trekked carefully past a spring and crossed the water several times to work our way down to finally view through the Window! Vista found! Now, time to ascend. Glad it’s cool finally, but not looking forward to headwind through canyon above Window.

Here’s the spring water, and the trail-builders worked hard to make steps in the bedrock to make hikers safer.

Took a side path for a short distance for another view out the Window. From here you can hardly tell how deep the canyon is.

Upbound.

We got out just fine, took a lunch break, then headed out in the pickup. Here’s the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo from hear a hot springs. I know this cane as carrizo from my time in Oaxaca. Yes, that’s Mexico on the other side, so let’s all call it carrizo, or car-ee-so.

Driving along, making our way back to the turn that will take us back into the Chisos Basin for the night, we found this coyote by the road.

I’ll take this as a goodnight from our patron peak, Casa Grande, right above our modest room. I’m sure all the rooms here are modest. The bling is in the views. And the critter sightings.

This entry was posted in faunal, images, outdoors on Tuesday, 17 December 2019 at 8:34 pm.
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