La Pena. I was getting excited about the day as this is one of the places I have been dying to visit. And we were finally going there. Up into the hills along a road that had been made up only a few years before hand. On the way we stopped to look at a few nice plants. First up was Nolina nelsonii heavy with seed.
Then Dasylirion miquihuanensis with it's strongly incurving tufts. Very nice - these were all over the place alongside the D. quadrangulatum
Then up the road to the really high bits. Toby and I went with James in his 4 wheel drive, but I was still petrified going up the steep dirt road with a sheer drop to one side... right up until we saw our first agaves... a group of Agave gentryi growing as understorey in the pine/oak forest at around 2150m.
Wow! Then a gentryi/montana intergrade...
Then further up at around 2600m we started to see some one of the plants I was really interested in seeing...