Sagebrush personal hiking blog
Several NMVFO volunteers met on National Trails Day at the Quarai site at Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.
We worked on Spanish Corral loop trail, adding and spreading wood chips on sections of the trail that were not rocky or part of a drainage.
Afterwards, Natalia from the National Park Service gave our group a presentation about the history of the Quarai site.
20 or so Socorro Trails and NMVFO volunteers returned to Six Mile in the Magdalenas to lop and clear blowdowns.
Six Mile, up towards the Magdalena Ridge Observatory from Water Canyon, is high enough for fine views of peaks and plains.
I returned to my adopted segment of the CDT, arriving late at night, and car-camping at the trailhead at the north end of the segment, near Surprise Tank. But first I stopped for pie, since I was going through Pie Town.
Wind buffeted the car through the night. The next day I plan to clear some downed trees and branches in an area that usually needs cleanup after winter. But I cannot spend a second night, because a storm is coming, and I need to head out before it gets bad.
I cleared 31 blowdowns, starting at Surprise Tank, the trailhead at the north of the segment, and going south about 6.5 miles.
On the return path back to the trailhead, a snow flurry commences.
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