(This is a continuation of the Jemez Mountains posting, May 24, 2013)
More specifically, the East Fork of the Jemez River. For those of you that live almost anywhere
other than the Southwest you have a different vision of rivers than we do. I remember when we went over the Rio Grande
the first time. We went over the whole
river and kept driving thinking that what we just went over was a tributary of
the Rio Grande, nope, it WAS the Rio Grande, quite a disappointment. This year New Mexico is in its third year of
drought. I believe we have received
approximately 9” of precipitation over the last two years. Our average precipitation to start with is only
9” a year so you can imagine what the rivers or former rivers are looking like.