Month: June 2019

• NNML 2019 Day 6, June 15, Saturday
• Start mile 80, Calaveras Well
• End mile 106, near NM96
• Miles walked: 26

The route continues on a pipeline road, steep and not maintained for general use. Then on to good dirt forest service roads, with a few campers and tents. Finally the route to cross country on ridge which broadens into a mesa.Sometimes the trail is swampy, and grass starts getting higher.The cross country route merges with Penas Negras Trail 32. Many dead trees have fallen, and there has been some attempt to saw logs and clear the trail, but trees fall faster than they can be cleared. About a mile of scrambling over fallen logs is a tough obstacle course. Continue reading “Parks and CDT”

• NNML 2019 Day 5, June 14, Friday
• Start near mile 57, past NM4 crossing
• End mile 80, Calaveras Well
• Miles walked: 23

Trail 137 comes out to Jemez Falls Campground, and continues on to McCauley Hot Spring, really a warm spring, but still nice.

Trail 137 ends at Battleship Rock Campground.

Continue reading “Warm and Hot”

• NNML 2019 Day 4, June 13, Thursday
• Start mile 32, West Alamo Rim
• End near mile 57, past NM4 crossing
• Miles walked: 25

Continuing along the ridge, I come to the Stone Lions, a sort of religious shrine.

The route joins the Alamo Spring Trail, and water is running in the canyon. Large rock outcroppings seem characteristic of the Jemez Mountains.

Continue reading “Jemez River”