This is the first remnants of last winters snow pack that we’ve come across. It’s pretty soft, must be melting fast!

Ah its good to be on top of a proper mountain at last :) at 11,300ft this is as high as we go in New Mexico. All downhill to Colorado from here!

We’re trying to discover the perfect sports margarita by combining powdered lemon & lime drinks with neat Tequila. It may take a while to find the perfect match, but here are the results so far.

#1The Replenish wasn’t too bad, this is our favourite so far, it does taste pretty much like a Margarita and has added electrolytes to boot!

#2The Country time was ok, we could happily drink it, but perhaps lacked the lime kick of the Replenish.

#3The Cool-Aid was pretty grim… Beside the fact that it’s bright green, just tasted like a cup of chemicals.

I‘ve been day dreaming about this for a few day… we sometimes drink various powered sports drinks which are generally lemon and lime flavoured to replace lost minerals etc and to liven up plain old water.

I reckon there must be a powdered drink out there that when added to a mug of Tequila wouldn’t be far off tasting like a Margarita?

We usually carry whiskey to add to our coffee on an evening, but I reckon we could be onto a winner with a midday Mountain Margarita drink, when we hit Colorado there’ll even be plenty of ice on hand too ;)

Above is all the options I could find at the supermarket in Grants: Kool-Aid, Country Time Lemonade and Replenish sports drink. I’m going to stick some tequilla in and let you know how it goes!

Updated the blog, called the girl friends, ordered some gloves and stuff online, had a sauna and swim. Its now 3pm and time to start drinking Margaritas :)

We went supermarket shopping a little bit pissed this afternoon. We came back with these pork fat treats. Back home they come in really small packets, I had to photograph them next to a can of beer so you can appreciate to scale of the packet! Everything’s supersized, check out the size of one of the scratching below! (bet you’d love these Rob)

Me and Paul hiked just shy of 20 miles without a food stop when we came across this sign on the way into Grants this afternoon. About 4 full plates later, we were both full to bursting. I still feel quite guilty about it, $5.45 – that’s got to be the best value meal I’ve ever had.

Looking forward to a beer, will be the first in about a week… You can see the snowy summit of Mount Taylor in the distance, we’ll be on top of it shortly!

Over here pretty much every road sign has multiple gunshot wounds. I like the open range cow above, but the stop sign below is probably the most destroyed one we’ve seen.