Today Jay and I explored new territory in the Placitas area. We started with a track from an ASCHG hike, “Placitas Knobs“. But a short distance into the hike, Jay recalled his visit to the area some years ago so we followed his lead (with some help using trail tracks on my PN-60 and on the Smartphone with the Maverick App and MapQuest maps).
The Hike
Track of Placitas Knobs hike, 04/16/2016, on GoogleEarth image.
Weather was cool and cloudy with snow showers high above us on North Sandia. The trails were well traveled, wide but often rocky. Slopes were not terribly steep so this was an easy hike. From the GoogleEarth image above you can see that we circumnavigated a good sized hill, often with great views overlooking Placitas, across the Rio Grande valley to Bernalillo and the Jemez mountains, and beyond. Even ‘tho it was not as long as many of our hikes, none the less we paused for a coffee/picker-upper break before heading towards the car.
Statistics
Total Distance: 3.1 miles
Elevation: start ft, maximum 6,458 ft, minimum 5,882 ft
Gross gain: 751 ft. Aggregate ascending 753 ft, descending 753 ft
Maximum slope: 23% ascending, 30% descending, % average
Duration: 2:36
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