About 60 percent of the soil surface is covered with pebbles and 2 percent with cobbles. Soil moisture - Moist in winter and spring months, dry in summer and fall except for 10 to 20 days cumulative between July and October due to convection storms. Subangular blocky, platy or is massive. Jobpeak, Skedaddle, Smallcone and Tejabe soils are less than 12 inches deep to bedrock. Lequieu soils contain 20 to 25 percent clay in the control section.
Wahguyhe soils are on mountain slopes and hills.
These soils formed in mostly residuum with some colluvium from volcanic flowrock and tuffs. Slopes are 15 to 75 percent. Elevations are 5,500 to 8,200 feet. The climate is arid with hot summers and mild winters. These are the Caya soils.