Our March camping trip was to what looked like a very scenic area on the map, up the Chama river above Abiquiu. We tried to get back in this area a couple years ago to check out some slot canyons, but got skunked by a giant snow dump in early November that turned the roads into gloopy mud. This time, the forecast was for dry and mild conditions, so we took the van and bikes and planned to camp along the river.

We set our sights on Cerro Pedernal, the object of innumerable photos and paintings and musings ("It’s my private mountain. It belongs to me. God told me if I painted it enough, I could have it." Georgia O'Keeffe).

An intense storm cell hit just as I got in the van coming home from errands... gusty winds and little pellets of snow at first, then hail (fortunately not large) -- this photo is from Camino la Tierra, all the white stuff is hail!