Sagebrush personal hiking blog
After some road and trail the route goes up a ridge between two great washes, or arroyos as we would say in New Mexico.
At the top are 360 views of mountains, canyons, and a copper mine.
Clouds build and threaten in the morning, but eventually the sun gets through part-time.
I saw a javelina in the morning, and several rabbits and jackrabbits through the day, not seen much earlier on the trip. A few cows are grazing, likely kept to a small number on this vegetation. Later in the day the hills flatten out, and vegetation changes somewhat– the saguaros see to prefer slopes, and more thorny bushes grow here.
The trail continues along Oracle Ridge, slowly descending to the hills below. I meet “Detour”, and we walk a few miles together in conversation before he stops for breakfast.
Today we are over a quarter the way through this trip.
