At 9 a.m. a crowd of us started for the Stone Lions and Painted Cave. Climbed out of canyon on S. side on trail just above camp. At the rim the slope opposite (N. side) has only 2 % slope. The N. precipice here has a number of parallel bands a few inches thick, of hard rocks, and the terraces show well above. We started over the old Navajo trail which crosses the Jemez Mts., going nearly West. Saw tufted ear squirrel, 1 cliff swallow and numerous Sialia m. bairdii, a woodpecker with much pure white, a swift or swallow very white beneath and on sides and on cheeks and apparently a narrow black streak down the throat; a towhee (spurred?); At 11:30 we struck the Cochiti trail, which cuts the Navajo trail at right angle, and turned south on it down a gulch into the Alamo Canyon, where we lunched with water. Here is a bluff on the south side, with pink tufa below and light colored tufa above, very hard tufa at the top. Canyon deep and narrow. Here saw a bird with white wing
