Papa and I set off for Bald Ridge yesterday morning. We drove Bob about an hour and fifteen minutes across the ranch, then hiked to Cowboy Dam #1, and tried to follow cow paths up the side of Bald Ridge. When we left home at 9:30, there was light wind, under 5 mph. By noon, as we hiked higher up the mountainside, the wind picked up. Within a hundred yards of the top, we gave up hiking. Bald Ridge is steep and winds of 45+ mph were too fierce to deal with. We hiked back down to the Dam and had a picnic. Along the way, wildflowers were in bloom, we came within 30' of a pair of Coos deer, and we saw most of the ranch's herd of cattle grazing.
