- CDT NM 2025 Day 5, Friday, April 11
- Start mile 91.5
- End mile 115.2 Jacks Peak
- Miles walked: 23.7
Continuing across a huge plain, I finally get to some hills.
Someone marked the 100 mile point. Seems longer.
The route continues on dirt road and actual built trail, winding up and down hills, no longer the straight lines hiked before.
Vegetation makes a major shift to larger trees: juniper, Emory oak, manzanita, some large enough for real shade.
Near Burro Peak Trailhead aka Jacks Peak Trailhead is trail magic, with water, sodas, buckets as chairs, and a disco ball. I am grateful.
As the day closes, I cowboy- camp near a peak.
At night the first clouds of the trip appear, then are gone with a sustained breeze.
Finished audiobook The Stainless Steel Rat, by Harry Harrison.