The Petroglyph park area is also an old volcanic area, so this particular section of NW ABQ contains a great deal of black-ish stone rubble from ancient volcanos; along this latitude the volcanic debris continues for miles; just east of Gallup there are big boulder deposits along I-40. Go N or S along the same longitude and the vegetation will be similar but the ground largely sandy; not like a beach, but finer, silt-like sand that will turn into clay, gummy when wet, hard-packed when dry until heat and mechanical action break it down again.
Bosque aside, it's a harsh landscape, but heartbreakingly beautiful in its open, vast vistas and very bright light (sunlight on the beach in Santa Monica seems dim in comparison, I kid not). Of course NM has many other types of landscape. It has been decades since I've seen Athens. An uncle used to teach at UGA, and we'd visit there on home leave. On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 8:29 PM Doug H. <dhansford1...@gmail.com> wrote: > The landscape looks so different than here in Athens, Ga. Nice photos > Patrick. I can relate to not being in hill shape. > Doug > > On Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 7:07:09 PM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> Today's ride took me west away from the Big River and the forested bosque >> to the escarpment that separates the West Mesa from the Valley; a >> separation not only in altitude but in terrain and vegetation; this is true >> high desert landscape. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgvA7D7%2BBN_5S3uOnBe_aWH3JG2SntO8HOF3VqWJ-vHk4A%40mail.gmail.com.
