- CDT NM 2025 Day 2, April 8
- Start post-and-cairns mile 20.5
- End dirt track mile 48.4
- Miles walked: 27.9
When I woke up it was already light. Oops, that misses some of the best walking time in the cool of the day. We continue following post-and-cairns, some built up with huge rock cairns.
Dropping down to the valley floor, trail markers change to metal signs on posts, much easier to follow with the blue CDT logo, and thus the tread is better defined.
We are getting patches of bare dirt, so dry nothing is growing there.
In the afternoon a water tank with a spigot provides good water. Thank you, generous rancher.
At water cache #3, I meet Mesa Man, who is also just hiking NM, and lives in NM.
Tenderfoot also arrives at the cache, and decides to camp nearby. There is still daylight left, so I press on. I have not been walking particularly fast, but the trails and tracks have been easy walking, and the miles zoom by today.
Finished audiobook Picks and Shovels, by Cory Doctorow, a Marty Hench novel, read by Wil Wheaton, excellent.