Well, gosh, that week got away from me, didn't it?
We went to the desert (Moab, of course) for the long Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend. I managed to pack in enough hours at work through the week that I only need to bring a couple of hours of work home with me to take Friday "off." That meant we could go down Thursday, giving us a whole extra day there.
Friday we intended to go to Salt Flats Recreation Area but our season pass had expired, so we did an out-and-back along the Pipedream trail instead. We started at the Jackson Street entry, and Milton and H did some trail running while I, trying to manage a tweaked knee, just hiked. When we were in the sun, it was pretty pleasant (30s F) but in the shade - and there is a lot of shade on that trail this time of year, once you get close to noontime - it was chilly.
On Saturday, we three went out to Seven Mile Canyon to take a short hike in the north fork. This section of the canyon comes right up under the Monitor and Merrimac buttes and it looks like you can get up there by ascending the rock levels towards the start of the hike. We didn't do that but I have it in mind for later in the spring. We were the only ones there, aside from some birds, and it is just so nice to find places in Moab where you can be out on your own, not too far from town. We do see people in this little canyon in the spring/summer/fall, but that January day, it was ours alone.
Sunday H wanted to trail run again - and Milton was up for anything - so we just went to Moab Brand Trails. We all set out on Lazy-EZ and the two of them ran ahead, then turned around and met back up with me, stumping along per usual. There were about nine other vehicles in the parking lot when we had gotten there but we only saw one MTBer and one trail runner, so again it was like having our own private trails. Milton did scare up a desert cottontail towards the end of our hike; that bunny easily outsmarted him by diving into some rocks. Exciting nonetheless!
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