Partly cloudy, nice and cool (with the day's high of 66 F) and we were off to the upper Navajo Rocks trailhead by 8:00 a.m. There were a couple of other vehicles in the lot and one group of four MTBers with whom we kept leapfrogging as we rode the Middle Earth - Coney Island - Big Lonely - Lone Mesa loop (clockwise, starting at ME across 313 from the parking lot).
It had rained a little the night before, patting the dust and sand down to a very rideable surface. The many of the trails at Navajo Rocks are a marked step more difficult than what I'm comfortable riding - I am not too proud to hike-a-bike, however - but I really like the slickrock sections of Big Lonely and Lone Mesa. Once you get past the technical climbing portions of Coney Island, the double-track climb goes very quickly too.
Because it stayed relatively cool, after H and I got back, Milton and I went out for an hour and a half on the Pipedream trail, walking from our place to the Jackson Street entry. We were the only ones out there - it was even too cool for much lizard action, much to the dog's dismay. There were lots of different wildflowers in bloom along that trail, more than we'd seen anywhere else so far; the combination of the elevation and the morning sun must be just what those delicate blossoms are looking for.
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