Menaul School
Wilderness Skills Course
E-Term (May) 2003
First Day Hike

This hike was in the Sandia Mountains outside Albuquerque. We hiked Tree Spring Trail to the Crest Trail.

     

Once at the top, we hung around a bit on the rocks as the wind whipped up the cliff face at us.

  

We turned around and headed back down after our festivities at the crest. There was still snow on the ground!

  

We took a variation of our route down and ended up making this quite a bit more strenuous a hike than I originally planned. We hiked up a ski run to Sandia Crest, where we ate lunch. One among us had a painful knee, so we sent another student along with him to wait for us at a parking lot while the rest of us fetched the van.

The students proved themselves worthy of a more difficult day hike for our second outing.