Team Leisure Double Trouble

Yesterday I said we were hiking in the Gunnison National Forest.  It was the Rio Grande.  Today we're in Gunnison.  This morning Sailor, Alfredo, and Friendly Neigbor decided they wanted to try for 27 miles as the trail looked more gentle.  Pounce and I thought that would be too much after the 27 we did yesterday but decided we'd "take it as it comes" and see how the miles would shake out.  We didn't want to push it.  The trail was more gentle.  There were a couple of long steep climbs the rest was downhill or level.  We were again mostly in forest but there were a lot more aspen.

The trail descended below ten thousand feet for the first time.  We saw a lot of Pica.  They are cute little creatures.  We also saw a lot more northbound hikers for a total of 15 since we got back on trail.  The miles came slow today.  We were tired but also feeling like we wanted to be "day hikers" and just enjoy the trail.  So we did.  

Earlier in New Mexico Spatula christened us Team Double Trouble.  Today we changed it to Team Leisure Double Trouble.  In spite of that we still made our twenty miles which is our minimum goal. We also broke the one thousand mile mark!