10 June 2024 – Trip Day 71
After our rest day, we drove to Albuquerque, New Mexico, our next hub for a week or so.
Happy morning baby!
We went to Petroglyph National Monument, which is located on the west side of Albuquerque. This was a different kind of Monument – there isn’t a visitor center per se, but an information center. There are four different trail heads that you can go to. From each trail head, you can hike along the cliff faces and observe the various petroglyphs.
There was a notice about Rinconada Canyon and numerous break ins of vehicles. Stay classy, Albuquerque.
We decided to go do the Piedras Marcadas Canyon hike.
We started out on the Mesa loop trail.
A passerby took a nice group shot of us, along with a friend we met up with in Albuquerque.
At the end of the mesa trail, we came down a fairly steep trail. Then we returned along the base of the mesa.
The trail did not generally permit close inspection of the rocks, as it was along the base of the mesa and the carvings were on the boulders up on the hillside. Most of these pictures were taken with the zoom on the phone cameras, so please excuse the weird angles on some.
As we got toward the end (beginning) of the trail, we encountered some of the better carvings.
Sun wheel petroglyph.
After our hike, we went to Costco for a resupply run as well as dinner and ice cream for the kids!
Randal was all about his chocolate sundae!
Brother, why won’t you share with me??!!
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