- CDT NM 2025 Day 6, Saturday, April 12
- Start mile 115.2 Jacks Peak
- End mile 142.5 water tank
- Miles walked: 27.3
The view from near Jacks Peak is hazy. Is there a fire upwind?
At nearby Burro Peak we start seeing Ponderosa forest for the first time on this trip.
Past Burro Peak and several miles of connector trail, we arrive at Red Rock CDT Trailhead. I was just here this Spring on a Back Country Horsemen trail project.
It is cool to see trail that I worked on looking so good.
The route does not actually go on Bullard Peak, but circles around it.
On the north side of Bullard the route enters Saddle Rock riparian area, and follows a wash in a canyon for several miles.
I saw a coati, large, looking right at me, but hiding too fast to get a photo.
I meet Dora and her humans from Montana, planning to mountain bike in the canyon. They offer me water.
I press on, and by nightfall make it to a metal water tank, the last water source until Silver City.
Finished audiobook Mr Spaceship, by Philip K Dick.