68 and sunny.
Welcome to Valles Caldera. Valles Grande is a huge meadow in the middle of the caldera. When the volcano erupted it blew out tons of magma. The the huge magma chamber emptied and the land above collapsed in to the vacant magma chamber. They say there is a herd of about 1,000 elk in here. The valley is hard to photograph because it is so big.
Cerro La Jara is a rounded wooded hill from a smaller eruption into the caldera. One of the historic cabins at the edge of the meadow.
Views on our drive into the caldera.
Coming out of the trees into the big meadow. A historic building with a corral.
More historic cabins and the visitor's center. There was a herd of about 200 head of elk in the valley. The inset at the bottom is a sort of closer up of the elk.
This whole area is deep canyons and mesas. The aspen are golden on the mesa tops.
Aspens. Sunset.
Sunset. Asters, senecio, a statue of a CCC worker. CCC built the road into Frijoles canyon. Of course the road is closed due to the shutdown, so we didn't travel on it, the setting moon in sunset.
Cottonwoods are still blazing. We fueled up at $3.39
The bus the Coronado RV Park, in Bernalillo, New Mexico. Sunset.
Sunset.
The shade shelter in our campsite.
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