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Hoofers at the top of the Sandia Mountains: with the steps, we were able to get the shorter hikers in the back and the taller ones in the front for a change! Front: Julianne, Sally, Jean P. Barb Back: Lynda, Barb's guest: "Barb II", Karen and....
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Making an appearance: Rose leading the hike!
Trailhead of the La Luz Spur
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Heading out
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| We had beautiful views throughout this section of the hike! |
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| Some, well, maybe most of the trail was on the edge of the mountains |
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The wildflowers were awesome here, we all took our time enjoying them
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It was a nice shady hike
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| Puccoon |
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| Mountain Parsley! As I said, we saw a lot of wildflowers! |
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| As I said, the trail was on the edge of the mountain |
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| And the views were awesome! |
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| Sally and Lynda keeping pace with me, while the others were enjoying the wildflowers |
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| This was the reason I went on this part of the hike first... no way was I going to climb all these steps at the end.... not after being at sea level for a month! |
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| Wallflower |
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| More Wallflowers--I was having trouble taking pictures of the flowers with my camera, for some reason, (as you can see in the above photos) so I asked Jean P. to take the flower pictures for me. |
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As you can see we had a nice shady trail
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| Monument Plant aka Green Gentian before blooming |
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| Canada Violets |
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I really loved the colors in this rock ledge
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| Clematis hiding but I saw it |
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| Some more of our great views |
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Rocky Mountain Iris were bountiful
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| Sally found 2 Puff mushrooms (one in her hand and one on ground below her hand) She said they were great eating, but should be eaten right after picking. These two were picked then left behind from someone and they were both hard as rocks -- actually that is what some of us thought they were! |
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Pausing to enjoy the view!
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| I found this interesting. I believe the forest service did this to preserve the soil from eroding and the rocks from being washed away |
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Views of the trail
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In the previous picture where we were all looking at the view we thought this rock edge was the location of the Kiwanis Cabin. As we went further along the trail we could see that we were right!
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| Zooming in on the tram. We met some people on this trail who had taken the Tram up and were going to hike down La Luz...(did they know how hot it was going to get?) We also met several hikers who had climbed up La Luz from the bottom. I told them we also were hiking La Luz, and they said we must have gotten up really early. Did not correct them from thinking that we climbed all the way up...I know, shame on me! |
We all know what this is
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Choke Cherry
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The end of La Luz by the Tram House
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| Views at the top |
View of ABQ
Can you believe that although we discussed it -- we did not take any pictures of the Hoofers eating lunch on the patio of the Ten3 restaurant
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| Hiking back to the cars... uphill after lunch... just to prove how fit we are! |
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| We saw very few wildflowers on the way back |
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We hike Pearl's trail since we were in the neighborhood
Barb II, Lynda, Barb, Sally, Karen, Jean, Julianne |
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| Barb II used my camera to catch all of me in the picture |
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