Harley and the gulch

cactus too.

 

The dog needed to run. On weekends there are too many people on the trail to allow for off leash romps in the areas we usually go to, so we headed out of town turned down a forest road until we ran into a washout and then headed up the gulch / arroyo /wash.  This was outside the red rock district and an area of much gravel, unconsolidated rocks.  And plants with an attitude.

We did not make it to the top learning in the process that all plants have thorns, stickers or something sharp.  It seemed not to bother Harley but some grass left almost invisible needle like little quills that passed through my jeans.

 lots a gravel. 

Still we got some exercise and I learned lessons about why it is good to stay on the trail. And for Harley much to snarffle.

This was a mystery - up the gulch a way - but definitely something which would be flooded several times a year,  I have no answers.