Everything started out fine. We found the following fort at the mouth of the Domingo Baca Canyon:
As soon as we took a wrong turn (see previous map), the trail quickly faded and we were bushwacking. The trail became extremely difficult to find. I'm not even sure there was a trail, as you can see by the following photos.
We sure had fun climbing rocks (bouldering) and finding water falls.
Notice the tree growing out of the granite:
Here we are at the top of the mountain. We don't recommend climbing up there. Check out the tram above Sam's head.
The other direction has a good view of Albuquerque.
Sam had a date that evening, so we had to head back home without finding the TWA crash site. We were about 0.75 miles (as the crow flies) from the site. The problem was that a big mountain was between us and the crash site. Also the cactus and poison ivy was a bit of a problem. On Monday we're going to take Cel and Jacob and find the crash site!
4 comments:
Cool pictures and a great adventure. I especially like the water pictures and the tree growing out of the granite. Whoa! You guys are always adventureous. Can't wait to see the crash site pictures.
Who would have imagined that the mountains of Albuqerque had any water at all? Wait till the next post, we found a 12 foot waterfall!
My favorite caches are the ones at the end of beautiful hikes.
We'll have to go on a hike together. I have a Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx. It's awesome. We also have the National Geographic Topo maps for NM. You can draw your hike and download the waypoints to the GPS.
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