- CDT NM 2025 Day 18, Tuesday, April 24
- Start mile 448.4 beginning Chain of Craters
- End mile 473.5
- Miles walked: 25.1
The route goes on top of a lava flow, with crevasses, caves, collapsed domes, and otherworldly swirling shapes, that I fear the camera cannot fully capture. The flow sustains thriving vegetation with the smallest bits of soil.
Hiking on the lava requires intense concentration, following cairns and keeping upright under strange footing.
I was hoping the route would go by more lava flows today, but instead we go through range and forest, and past some cinder cones.
But at least we remain free of dirt road the entire day. Hoping for more lava tomorrow.
Finished audiobook The First Sir Percy: An Adventure of the Laughing Cavalier, by Baroness Emma Orczy.