Whew, it's COLD! We're currently camping at Lake Cochiti in New Mexico and it's 40 right now headed down to 33. I drove through a mushy snow blizzard on the way home from Santa Fe. Kinda cool! Our trip has included 90 degree weather in February and now snow and freezing weather in mid-April.We hiked both trails at Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument. It's a place located on Cochiti Tribal Land that has canyons and hoo-doos cut into pyroclastic flows and ash. The hoo-doos have hard rock on top causing them to have caps and look like tipis. (Oh, Kasha-Katuwe means "white cliffs" in Cochiti which is a Puebloan language.)
Afterwards we drove through Pueblo Cochiti. It was interesting to see the modern day kivas in the center of the town. I've learned that "Pueblo" doesn't necessarily stand for a building in the side of a mountain, but stands for a "community". This tribal land focuses around the Rio Grande River and is the northern most community of the Keresan Pueblo.
I drove out to Santa Fe this evening. On the way in, I spotted buffalo and hawk, interesting canyons, snow-peaked mountains, and an awesome sunset overlooking multiple mountain ranges. On the way home, I spotted no cars once I got off of I25, snow, and a lot of dark. No elk yet, but they're supposedly all around us.
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