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[cdt-l] Finished with N.M.
"john corrigan" <spitzel803@hotmail.com> wrote:
>What an expanse of wildness. From the people to the wildlife to the
>natural scenery N.M. was a joy-that is of course if you're in the shade and
>have water! We used the BLM and National Forest maps and were
>pleasantly surprised and downright disgusted with them. In general we
>found the wells on the map and were very grateful. Topographically
>the maps just simply sucked. The large map of the Gila, Aldo Leopold
>is completely useless and might be the worst map ever printed for
>topography, but it did make for interesting detours. I recommend
>going down Black Canyon from Reed's Meadow then using Tom Moore canyon
>(east fork Gila) then up the the Dwellings then west fork Gila for a short
>bit and crossing over to middle fork at the meadows. It was hard,wet
>yet beautiful canyon/mesa scenery. And we even had flowing
>water-unbelievable! We're flipping from Pagosa to hopefully outpace
>the potential fires up north. From all that !
> I've heard this is going to be a horrible year. I'm still
>travelling with Semperfi Drew and Meatball. Hope all is well!
>Travel light! Gimli
John -
You picked an interesting route - sounds like you're happy with it. With the
reportedly low snowpack up north this year your flip sounds like a really
good idea.
Tell Drew we said Hi.
Walk softly,
Jim and Ginny
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