22 August 2019 Hiking Monterrey

The timing worked for one evening hike on my visit.  We stopped for a different climb at a familiar park.  Pollution is a problem in the metro area. The mountain ring surrounding the area locks in the air from the vehicles and industry.  Tonight the cloud was pushing into the metro area.

I wasn't expecting to see these in the dry rocky climb.  There were many of them at the lower range of our hike.

This was a new trail for us.  It was quite steep in areas, but a pleasant hike.

I happened to look at my gps and noted there was an unfound cache at a slightly higher elevation.  We had talked that there was an old planetarium at the park.  I was surprised to find it was near the locations of the cache.

It would have been too much to happen upon this on an evening when it was open.  Still, it was a fun and unexpected discovery.  As usual, we didn't find the cache, but we had fun looking and exploring.

It was a long, dark walk back with just the lights of Monterrey as a guide.  We were treated to a sighting of three coatis.