On a recent bike ride up at the East Fork trail, Dave had to go back
to the car to get something he'd forgotten, leaving me guarding his pack.
It turned out that was a blessing in disguise. While I waited, looking
up at the spectacular backlit sky high above the ponderosas, I saw
hundreds of little fluff pieces floating by, highlighted and glowing
from the sun behind them. Occasionally, I'd see long filaments drift
past: I assume they were strands of spider web, perhaps with tiny baby
spiders attached, invisible at that distance.
I tried to capture them on phone video, but unsurprisingly,
the video wasn't good enough to capture them, and neither were the
still photos.
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14:41 Oct 01, 2025
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This week's group hike was at the always beautiful Las Conchas trail,
up in the Jemez mountains. Originally planned as a snowshoe/ski hike,
we discovered there wasn't enough show to justify either one, so we all
opted for Yak Trax or other forms of shoe-mounted spikes. As it turned out,
there wasn't much ice so we probably didn't even need that. (One of
Dave's spike sets fell off early in the hike, and he continued for
miles before he noticed one foot was unspiked. Fortunately, he was
ahead of the group and someone else spotted the lost spikes.)
It was beautiful, and the 27°F temperature didn't feel so bad once
we were moving. But it did cause one problem: my Camelbak hose froze up,
so I had to resort to eating snow when I wanted a drink of water until
lunchtime when I managed to clear out the ice.
Not the first time that's happened. I've long wanted to get some sort
of hose insulator that would keep the hose from freezing, but I
haven't been able to find one.
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