The same weather system that
almost made me write off Carrizozo also almost gave short shrift to
Valley of Fires Recreation Area. We all got a second shot. We pulled into an already-full campground, and got a site that isn't really a site, but had everything we wanted, plus extra privacy.
When I came through here a month earlier, my main concern was setting up camp somehow out of the horizontal rain. Luckily for me, the tent area is is a protected area of the park, and I did fine. I still wasn't tempted out onto the lava fields, though.
This flow makes me think of bull plops in the desert. Same kind of humble art.
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| No bull. |
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| Not a yucca. A spoonplant. |
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| Still not a yucca. |
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| Juniper. Not a yucca. |
The sign says the walk is 1.5 hours, but even at my ducklike speed it took less than an hour.
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At our campsite that isn't.
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