@ Rob: Lagavulin is a good choice, I prefer (at this moment) a Bruichladdich Waves....

Saturday was mid 40's to start and became sunny and the mid 70's, pretty nice for the end of March.
We had seen this cave that appeared to be an old habitation site, and we wanted to explore it. We needed climbing gear to get in and get back out. After a good bit of hiking, and then climbing, we were able to get inside, but due to years and years of the roof flaking off, the floor was covered with deep rock and sand debris that prevented us from seeing any artifacts if any were present.
We did 4 rappels and had a great time.
Peter

Peter,
What a great little adventure!
Is it ok to remove any artifacts you might find?
Tony

Tony
It is illegal to remove artifacts anywhere due to the antiquities act.
It is illegal to remove anything from national parks
It is ok to remove a limited amount of minerals, like agate, petrified wood and invertebrate and plant fossils from non-park federal lands such as BLM.
You can not remove vertebrate fossils or dinosaur bones, and you can't make castings of dinosaur foot prints.
A lot of habitation sites have been looted over the year however

Peter

Got it.
Makes sense.

Cool and some rain and snow today, but saw some really nice waterfalls on the slick rock pour offs. Was in this cave while the snow was heavy, but it cleared up quickly as usual here. We really needed the rain and it was never too hard.
It should warm back up later in the week and some more flowers should pop up

Peter

VERY NICE!
I never get tired at looking at that terrain.

Peter

Thank you for the great pictures, as usual. You sure live in a unique part of your country. Keep the pictures coming.

Peter-

Probably coming north via Moab in June; will let you know when we get closer to leaving Texas.

Pap

I agree! I see way too many strip malls & asphalt down here!!! Keep them pictures coming!!!