Sunday and Monday Hikes

Sunday church starts at 1:00 P.M., so Rob and Anna took me for a four-mile walk up Thomas Creek. It was a beautiful day and a great hike. After church Anna and I made dinner for the family and the Brerertons. We redid the banoffee pie in honor of Phil Brererton who is a Manchester lad. We had a splendid evening of eating and visiting.

 Hastings' house is on the far left

 The Thomas Creek Trail

 Thomas Creek

 Mount Rose from the trail

 This Chevy (c. 1954) is composting near the creek

This morning after the kids left for school, we headed up the fire road behind R&A's home. Near the summit of yesterday's hike, we broke off onto a trail that wound its way up to the higher reaches of Thomas Creek. The trail took us all the way to the forest at the foot of the Sierras and the Thomas Creek Trail head. (That trail can lead you all the way to the top of Mount Rose or over the mountains to the Tahoe Rim Trail.) We went up the trail a few hundred yards before heading south to the White Creek Trail that led us back down to Saddlehorn and the home neighborhood. The whole loop was 1/4 mile short of 7.

 Today's trail started in the sagebrush

 We climbed higher and higher toward the mountains

 Mount Rose appeared as we ascended

 A bright hint of spring beside the trail

 The ponderosa pines beginning to appear

 Beautiful vistas

 The Ponderosas where the foothills end and the mountains begin

 The upper reach of Thomas Creek where

it comes down from the Sierras

 Headed south from Thomas Creek to White Creek

 The aspens will burst soon with this spring-like weather

 White Creek

 Headed down the White Creek Trail

 The Sierra Nevada

Home again, home again...

How nice to live so close to these great trails and beautiful spots. I am very fond of Reno.

That's all for now.

OXO

D.