Page 35 - Volume 3 - Walks In The Black Range

There are relatively few trail signs in the Black Range these days (Nov. 2020). Not that they are needed in this day of a million trail apps but they are comforting, something like a book instead of a tablet. In any case, one of the classics is shown at the top of the following page.
appeared to be feeling the colder weather and were “gone past” (photo immediately above).
In places along the Powderhorn Ridge Trail, Pteridium aquilinum, Western Bracken Fern (photo right), was growing in masses although in October most of the fronds were a mass of brown on the ground.