South Rim

Dorothy,

Gary Salzman 16 October 2005

Here is a report on the hike organized by Ken Kutac along the Valles Caldera Rim Trail portion over the top of Los Griegos. Participants were Ken Kutac, Jean Jones, Yvonne Delamater, and Gary Salzman. I have written a short introduction that includes a map of our track along the trail, a GPS waypoint list, and a very brief description of the hike. Yvonne’s transcript is included as the next section of the report. I have inserted pictures in her report to go with her text. Ken’s text follows Yvonne’s transcript. Under each photograph or map, I have put a caption that contains the file name of the image that is also on the CD. The first topographic map below shows the hike in its entirety including waypoints at NM 4. Note from the profile at the bottom of the image that we should have started the hike at waypoint 091 (east end) to save some climbing.

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South Rim Overall hike waypoints and track. The blue track is the drive to the parking area. The red track is the hike. TOPO!map1.jpg

The second topographic map shows the hike in more detail. Yvonne’s description includes some of the waypoints on the map.

Detailed hike waypoints and track. The blue track is most of the drive to the parking area. The red track is the actual hike from west to east. TOPO!map2.jpg

The next five images are satellite images from Google Earth (www.google.com) with the hike waypoints shown on the images. The first three images are direct overhead images of the hike start, hike middle, and hike end. The two perspective images show views from the northeast and northwest. These manipulations were done with the Google Earth software available on PCs for free from Google. We drove both cars up FR 280 and then FR 281 to a parking area near the closed gate that gives access to some radio transmitters on top of Peralta Ridge. We left one of the cars there and then drove on NM 4 to the west to FR 10. We drove up to the top of Cat Mesa and continued on FR 10 for about 0.3 miles to an unnamed dirt road that we followed up to waypoint 044 in front of a gate leading to private property.

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South Rim The waypoints are provided in the following table in UTM coordinates WGS 84:

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South Rim Vallecitos de los Indios on FR 10 is in the middle of the satellite image. FR10Image-HikeStart.jpg

PerspectiveFromNE.jpg

Los Griegos is the ridge extending from waypoint 068 to waypoint 076 where there is a “shrine.” FR10ImageHikeMiddle.jpg 4

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The NM 4/ FR 280 junction is at 093. FR 281 turns off of FR 280 at waypoint 092 and we parked one car at waypoint 091. FR10Image-HikeEnd.jpg

Los Griegos extends from waypoint 067 to 076. PerspectiveFromNE.jpg

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