Sagebrush Trails

• SF2T 2026 Day 3, June 11, Thursday
• Start mile 32.7 Dockweiler Trail
• End mile 47.7 West Fork Rio Santa Barbara
• Miles walked: 15.0

The Jaroso Fire burn scar extends about a mile.

Climbing is easier today, and I enjoy reaching Pecos Baldy Lake.

Trailriders Wall is one of my favorite places in the Pecos, with Truchas Peaks in view. At 12k elevation and windy, I have to add a layer.

The route passes near the three Truchas Peaks, and Truchas Lake.

I climb the pass at Santa Barbara Divide on Beatty’s Trail, and enter the Carson National Forest.

Descending along the West Fork of the Rio Santa Barbara, I pitch camp early down at 10k elevation and enjoy the noise of the river.

Finished audiobook Fortunes Fool, by Rafael Sabatini.

Finished audiobook Little Fuzzy, by H Beam Piper.

• SF2T 2026 Day 2, June 10, Wednesday
• Start mile 13.2 on Winsor Trail, approaching ski area
• End mile 32.7 Dockweiler Trail
• Miles walked: 19.5

The route continues a steady climb, up to the Santa Fe Ski Basin.

Shortly afterwards, we enter the Pecos Wilderness.

I meet two different pairs hiking the SF2T in the other direction. One said they were hiking towards Santa Fe to get the road walk out of the way first.

We go past three lovely mountain lakes today: Katherine, Stewart, and Spirit.

The trails today are Winsor, Skyline, Cave Creek, Panchuela, and Dockweiler, all of which I have done trail projects.

Finished audiobook The Assassination Bureau, By Jack London, finished after his death by Robert Fish.

Finished audiobook My Man Jeeves, by P G Wodehouse.

• SF2T 2026 Day 1, Tuesday June 9
• Start mile 0, Santa Fe Plaza
• End mile 13.2 on Winsor Trail, approaching ski area
• Miles walked: 13.2

Cairn drops me off at the train station at 6:30, and I arrive in Santa Fe around 9. I I do not need to hike far today– just to USFS land where I am allowed to camp. Let’s explore and enjoy Santa Fe. I take a walking tour, given by a docent of the NM Museum of History.

 What is 1663? That is the PO Box for all atomic scientists reporting to Los Alamos during WW2, commemorated on a plaque in the first placita east of the plaza.

Afterwards I get enchies at a place just off the plaza.

Heading east along Alameda and the Santa Fe “River”, the route then turns along a pathway.

Following open space paths, we connect with the Dale Ball trail network, crossing Hyde Park Road, then La Piedra trail and several ups and downs,  to Juan Trail and getting to USFS, and finally Winsor Trail for the rest of the day, climbing roughly parallel to Hyde Park Road towards the Ski Basin.

Winsor is getting plenty of mountain bike use, and I see a couple of bikers. 

Finished audiobook The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiel Hammett.