Sorry it took so long to reply-got out of the wilds Thursday, just got home tonight.
Hiked Ghost Ranch (Chimney Rock), Bandelier (Falls Trail and Main Loop), and just drove a lot to marvel at the scenery. Ate the BEST supper at El Rito! Little hole in the wall you wouldn’t believe! Lovely people all over northern NM...I look forward to returning.
I hope you enjoyed Bandelier.
My family had an interesting experience there one spring when we were living in Los Alamos. My wife, 10 month old baby and I went in at the head of Frijoles Canyon, camping in the bottom. That night an unexpected storm rolled in and dumped about a foot of snow, making the climb back up the switchbacked trail to the trailhead impractical.
So we hiked out the 12 or so miles to the park headquarters. When we got there a search and rescue team was mobilizing in the parking lot. I went over and talked to them. After about half an hour I got around to asking who they were looking for.
Turned out there was a young couple with a baby trapped in upper Frijoles Canyon...
A friend of ours had called it in, assuming we were in serious trouble. Kind of funny. There we were standing and talking to the rescue team setting out to look for us.
BTW, where’s El Rito? Used to know all the holes in the wall around there, but that was a couple decades ago.