October 16th was another gloriously warm day in Arroyo Hondo, so I took Scout down to the Rio Grande Gorge for a picnic. One of the wonderful things about being retired is that I can visit places during the week when not too many people are around and such was the case with this trip. We stopped at where the Rio Hondo (basically a mountain stream) empties into the Rio Grande, where people had built up a series of rock "dams." Scout was in his glory and spent the whole time in the water, as you'll see from the pictures below.
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| View from the Rio Grande up the side of the Gorge. |
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| Another view to the top of the Gorge. |
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Scout, looking for a stick, in one of the pools created where the Rio Hondo enters the Rio Grande. John Dunn Bridge in the background, looking upriver. |
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| Scout in one of the lower pools, still looking for a stick. |
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| Returning home, the view toward the mountains from the top of the Gorge. |
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| View of cottonwoods lining the Rio Hondo on trip home. |
