We need to continue heading north towards our next short term destination, at the latest arriving Thursday night to make an event on Friday. Potentially, this means not riding the South Boundry Trail, which is not what I want. I’m just still tired and riding while tired is surely no smarter than driving while intoxicated.

Today we both rode at Taos Valley Overlook trails, some of which I enjoyed yesterday. The park still has the service roads from whenever, though for the most part they are being overtaken by the vegetation’s slow encroachment. Their distance from here to there is pretty much “as the crow flies” and superbly contrasts the weaving trails we rode. To be precise, the trail builders expertly and cleverly created a fun and essentially no uphill 2.2 mile ride from a 1.6 mile stretch down a rather narrowish strip fenced in by two arroyos with just over 300 feet of elevation loss to work with.

The view of the canyon is an ever present trail feature. From the parking lot, the top of the far canyon wall is just visible; slowly but surely, as one continues on the trail, the view morphs into a precipitous cliff edge.

Viewing NE from one of the trails.

Another glimpse into the canyon with those amazing clouds.

We decided to stay in Taos one more night, we’ll ride more of the same place tomorrow, I’ll [probably] ride the SBT Thursday and then same day we drive on, ever closer to quality chocolate.