Sagebrush Trails

• Northern New Mexico Loop Preview
• Santa Fe Start June 10
• To the Rio Grande
• Bandelier
• Jemez River
• Warm and Hot
• Parks and CDT June 15
• Ojitos Canyon and Rim
• Ghost Ranch Nero
• Box, Ridge, Highlands
• Grass, Creek, Canyon
• Lagunitas June 20
• Cumbres Pass
• Osier
• Rio San Antonio
• High Plains
• Dunn Bridge June 25
• Questa
• Rendezvous Taos Ski Valley
• Manzanitas Trail Zero
• Red River
• Latir
• Monsoon and Valle Vidal July 1
• Eagle Nest
• Angel Fire
• Obstacles
• Pecos Wilderness North July 5
• Pecos Memories
• Trails End Santa Fe July 7

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• NNML 2019 Day 28, July 7, Sunday
• Start just past Spirit Lake, mile (sec9mile44)
• End Santa Fe plaza, (sec9mile66)
• Miles walked: 22

Tent moth were attacking aspens on a section of this trail, with the trees not leafing out at all in July. Whole mountainsides of trees were bare.

Out of the Pecos Wilderness, the Winsor Trail continues for many more miles. This next section is maintained by a mountain bike club, and today I saw dozens of bikes on the trail.

The USFS has a new restriction for trails I had not seen before.

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• NNML 2019 Day 27, July 6, Saturday
• Start near Skyline Trail, mile 443 (sec9mile17)
• End just past Spirit Lake, mile (sec9mile44)
• Miles walked: 27

In the morning I start up Skyline Trail.

The route goes up high on a ridge, with no tree cover for some miles.

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