What a hard day it was. I am tired and sometimes crabby. Dinner was perfect-spaghetti and meat sauce and fresh salad-somehow we forgot the merlot. Jan, Richard, Cathy and I traveled a lot today. First we four wheel drove a couple miles and then we hiked around corners, up and down for about 1 mile. Then it was the big hike. We hiked up and down about 5 or 6 peaks and saddles. We reach the support vehicles, we drink water, warm Gatorade, and some food and we have to walk a couple of more miles. Luckily, it is relatively flat. We hike over 10-11 hours today, not including driving. We have a tense moment when we are at the top of a peak and I have my metal Leki hiking poles and the New Mexico afternoon storm roles in. I don’t like being the highest metal thing in the mountains, so I give them to Richard. He takes them, go figure. It rains for an hour or two. It feels good. I have decided that Jan was a mountain goat in the past. We had lots of laughs and some tense moments too. We are done for the day. Time for sleep.