Another Great Hike/Event
This hike was to continue the hike I began earlier on the second section of the CDT. It was intended to finish this section, which would have been 40 miles.
As it turned out, I still didn't get to complete this section as the Forest Service had closed the last piece of this section to controlled burn. Right. So where was the
smoke from this 'burn'? This, as the treks before in the desert, was another dry venture that requires you carry lots of (heavy!) water.

It didn't take to long for it to dawn on me that this couldn't be the CDT. There are NO motor vehicles on the CDT.	Trekking beside the road back to the main trail, as the road was mostly sand, and therefore extremely difficult walking
Ahhh, back to where we are supposed to be
Pretty flowers, surrounded by a couple of weeds that seem to have succumed to the previous early frost
	Our God does the most fascinating handiwork on many of New Mexico's rocks
The sky was beginning to 'clabber'. Knew there was going to be wind, but nothing about rain in the forecast	The red bush here hasn't been pretty red like this until fall. After the previously mentioned frost, I'm thinkin
The trail isn't always ideal :-(	More rocks...
	More flowers... and the red fall-colored bushes
A cholla	Not enough contrast here to differentiate between the bush and the ground. Sad, it was a pretty one in fall colors
Speaking of 'clabber'. It was at this point that I was pretty sure that the raingear was gonna have to come out	|
It was after this trailhead that I was introduced to 'Let's climb forever'. I had already done about 8-9 miles of fairly benign trail time, so was blindingly complacent. At this TH I began 1500' of vertical, on some of the worst footing imaginable. When I finally reached 'camp now or fall out on the trail', I was dead man walking.
These pictures were all on the east side of the peak in question, and looking back towards Silver City
The campsite. Very soft because of all the pine needles. However dinner was a wash, as the wind prevented you from even considering using your stove. I had really run out of daylight anyway, so the sleeping bag seemed like a pretty good alternative option.