Day: 028
Date: Monday, 03 June 2024
Start: Cerro del Ojo Frio
Finish: La Ventana Mesa
Daily Kilometres: 35.7
GPX Track: Click here for Julie’s Strava & Photos
Total Kilometres: 841.20
Weather: Hot and sunny.
Accommodation: Tent
Nutrition:
Breakfast: Pop tarts
Lunch: Trail mix
Dinner: Noodles & chicken/Rice & chicken
Aches: Dave - the usual niggles; Julie - nothing reported.
Highlight: The water cache that we reached around 1pm was most welcome. There had been no water sources since leaving camp this morning and the day had turned into a hot one. The trail was very exposed and sometimes challenging and we were going through water faster than expected. We knew that the quantity of water in the cache was likely to be rapidly dwindling as there were hikers ahead of us, and we just hoped there was some left when we got there. There was and we drank our fill.
Lowlight: A strong wind blew all night, buffeting the tent and making sleep difficult. It was still blowing hard as we packed up camp, which made it very hard.
Pictures: Click here
Map and Position: Click here for Google Map
Journal:
We had a bad night with the wind and it made packing up hard. We were glad to be hiking by 6:10am and things rapidly improved from there.
Our trail all day passed through a magical landscape of buttes, mesas, hoodoos and canyons, with fantastic vistas to which photographs could not do justice, but we took plenty anyway.
Often we were hiking along the edge of mesas where a stumble would not be welcome, and there were plenty of steep climbs and descents to negotiate under the hot sun. But all the time we were just awed by the constantly changing landscape around us. It was a day to remember.
Around 6pm we found a lovely place to camp near a canyon rim and called it a day. The wind is blowing again!
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