March 29, 2026

Beautiful day again. Today after church and lunch we headed up over Log Hill. We stopped and walked a bit on the Escarpment Trail. There was some wind as usual there. We then headed up East Dallas to see how far we could go. Surprisingly we made it clear to the Blue Lakes trailhead. The road was mostly dry. That is the earliest I’ve ever made it to the trailhead. I read yesterday that this years snowpack in the San Juans is the lowest in history. I believe it now. The mountains look like it’s the middle of June. Hopefully we can get some moisture before it’s too late. I took some photos by the creek. It was beautiful up there and there were quite a few people but nothing like the busy times. 

 March 27, 2026

Today we headed over to Sanborn again.  We had a picnic of fire roasted hotdogs down by the Middle Sanborn Reservoir.  We met Dylan on the way.  He was coming back from looking for turkeys.  He found some and got a video of a Tom coming in pretty close.  The Pasque flowers are in bloom.  They're not as big this year due to drought.  The only wildlife - kind of - we saw was a horny toad.  Finding critters over there has been meager this spring.  I think it's because it's so warm.  The San Juans snowpack looks like the middle of June or so in a normal year.  We are still praying for snow up there.  God knows what He's doing.

 March 26, 2026

It was another warm day. 82. We messed around here. I mowed the lawn. It was too hot to walk. I sure miss my daily “dirt walks”. After supper we headed up to P77. Surprisingly it was totally dry. We saw a few elk there and on the Big Cimarron road. We only saw a couple deer. There were very few people which was nice. The bugs are already out in force. The Jeep windshield gets covered before we’re hardly out of town. Very warm even at 10pm tonight. We’re praying a lot this changes or it will be a very smokey summer.