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Drive in the Country, Part 2

We stopped and stretched our legs near the top of the mountain, then noticed a house way above us. Wow.



This is a mile high and temperature is down around 30 or lower, and we take a pass on the restroom (outhouse) here.



In the distance looking eastward we can see Lake Henshaw, or at least the valley it occupies filled with mist or fog rising from the lake.



Looking south.



Coming around the mountain our misty view expands across a wider range than my panorama function can capture.



A lovely red-headed woodpecker grooming itself provides our first animal photo.





After a few miles we drop down Into The Mystic, err I mean the mist.





I turn up a road towards Mesa Grande, another Indian tribal reservation. Along the way we learn that hunting dogs are welcome here (if their owner has deep enough pockets).





The dog trainers are on dirt roads and we are able to press the special TRACTION button on the 4x4 and choose mud, snow or sand. I decided on snow even though that's a bit of an overstatement.




It might not be "snow" to those in the northern or southernmost parts of the earth, but it was slicker than stem grease from Seiko. On corners, we found ice as well. 



Vintage tractor would look good in my back garden if I could get it home ...



but the cows would miss it. We saw hundreds of them in this area.








I hunted for the squirrel button on the 4x4 traction control, couldn't find it, and slowed down until he scampered off to the side.



There wasn't a llama or alpaca setting either!



We crossed the Santa Ysabel valley and stopped momentarily,



but the restrooms were out of order and we decided to push on.