For New Years eve, the plan was to hike to some of the local palm groves. Marianne decided that she would just as soon stay home, so Richard drove over to Tom's and Joan's campsite.
We drove over to Mountain Palm Springs campground, and headed up the right hand wash, which gradually became steeper, and involved a little scrambling. We found at least three groves, Mary's, North, and Surprise, but decided not to hike up to the Palm Bowl.
After lunch, we headed out to do a little jeeping. Richard wanted to see the railroad, so we drove down Mortero Wash to the Dos Cabezas rail siding. The rails appeared to be in good shape, with some evidence of use. We noticed the the rails were marked “Colorado”, and 1915, so the rails dated to the original construction of the line. The Mortero wash trail was straightforward, but we decided to return via the Jojoba Wash. The Jojoba road was quite a bit more challenging. There was a dropoff into a wash that required us to stop and move some rocks, but Tom negotiated it well, with some direction from Joan. After snacks and a margarita, Richard headed home. Marianne had a very quiet day.
We hooked up the TV and watched the Univision New Year's Eve award show. We were surprised to find four very watchable TV channels. The weather forecast was very favorable, which is good. We watched Coach Shanahan give a sad farewell after being fired by the Broncos. Marianne lost at Scrabble, but won at Skipbow. We heard some whooping and hollering at midnight, but we went right back to sleep.
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