Sagebrush personal hiking blog
The New Mexico Volunteers for the Outdoors (NMVFO) returns for a weekend at the BLM Datil Well Campground. On Friday, as is now tradition, campers dined together at Eagle Nest Guest Ranch in Datil.
On Saturday we built new trail on a proposed hiking loop to camping sites that may be used by scouting groups. Terrain was grassy, with scattered pinon and juniper, few rocks, and mild slopes.
The NMVFO worked on a single-day project on a Tuesday, to replace an old log crossing at Nambe Creek on the Winsor Trail, about 2 miles into the Pecos Wilderness from the Ski Santa Fe trailhead.
The old split-log bridge was rotting and water-logged, with questionable footing.
The NMVFO held a trail building project from Friday July 26 to Monday in the Sandia Mountains, car camping (after two changes of venue in planning) at Capulin Snow Play Area and working on the nearby Ellis Trail.
The Play Area had a shelter that proved useful to hide from rain the first evening.
Trail work involved several small re-routes on heavily traveled path, so extra care was taken to engineer a maintainable tread.
Much rock work happened.
