Peeled myself out of bed at the ass-crack of dawn this morning to make it to the Fanta-Se Ski Basin by 6:30 (it is a 2 hour drive; I will let you calculate the ungodly hour in which I left my place). I met up with Paul. Jim and Brian who were if nothing else entertaining for the day as we trampled 16 miles through the Peco Wilderness checking off 5 peaks including Mt Baldy over 12,000 feet and a mountain lake Nambe.
Where here is the description of the hike courtesy of its leader… Paul.
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Join me on a fun but strenuous loop hike to Santa Fe Baldy where we will bag five peaks before the end of the day. Plan to take the Winsor Trail to Raven's Ridge and follow it to Deception Peak. Then it is on to Lake and Penitente Peaks before taking a steep and off-trail descent to Puerto Nambe. From there we'll take the straight line approach, off-trail of course, to Santa Fe Baldy and onto North Baldy for lunch (if the weather holds). Finally it's off trail once again down a steep slope to Lake Katherine where we will tread on and off trails back to the Winsor Trail.”
Mean while back at the Condo…
So Susan is trying to rent out my deluxe condo in the sky (elevation 7,009ft) ! and has been showing it to various people! So Ben, the chiropractor and acupuncturist came by yesterday to take a gander… but he is allergic to carpet and too tall for the bed and rejected the place-visualize tall greasy haired man with his wrist cocked. And then today while I was hiking- she showed it to a couple in their 20s who after viewing the place went hiking and jumped in the rio grande. The girl also has the same beautiful Bianchi Imola that I do. So they are moving in on September 1, 2010. Which leaves me either sharing my condo, but gaining two built in friends or moving to an apartment on the ranch and gaining two built in el pacas.
Good thing Clyde was there to keep a watch over the situation (Clyde is a large tree spider that lives in the doorway of my condo.
