cdt_new_mexico Photo Gallery by Brian Dickson at pbase.com

Brian and Martina hiked the length of New Mexico over 640 miles from Palomas Mexico to Cumbres Pass Colorado in April - May 2009 as part of our Continental Divide Trail thru hike. New Mexico was a wild, interesting and tough hike for us. Starting in the northern Sonoran desert with few water sources we climbed up into hills and trees in the Gila Wilderness then followed the Gila canyon upstream for about 70 miles. From there we headed over high desert with the lack of water availability being a constant threat. Northern New Mexico was lusher with jeep tracks of the south giving way to proper hiking trails and rivers, snow and distant sightings of the snow covered San Juan mountains of Colorado. We met few other hikers, but many helpful locals. The generous pioneering spirit was alive and well in New Mexico. Altogether, a great experience!
By clicking map above right you can view the photos via a google map.
New Mexico ......Colorado ......Wyoming ......Montana ......Also see our blog at A Wee Walk

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Map showing our hike through New Mexico	At the Mexican border	Our first camp at Columbus	Columbus, New Mexico	Yellow cactus fruit
Camp by a windmill	Martina hikes with tres hermanas mtns behind	Spiky plants	Flower with bee	A parched landscape north of Deming
No drinking water here!	Martina avoids bees at water tank	Yes, we did drink from here!	The wide open desert with Cookes Peak behind	Macho (rattlesnake) Spring windmill and cabin
Martina walks through a corral	Brian and Martina enter forest hoorah!	Red cactus flower	Sap drips from tree as we approach Emory Pass	Brian near Emory Pass
Hillsboro fire look out	A great panorama from Hillsboro tower	Martina climbs up Hillsboro fire tower	We stopped for a resupply in Silver City NM	Tour of the Gila cycle race in Silver City NM
This is a waterfall in our guidebook!	Our first dip in the Gila River	Early morning in the lower Gila river	Indian Blanket Flower	Doc Campbells store resupply for the Gila
Gila river middle fork- Martina and Ted	Milk snake in the foilage	Ted, Martina and Richard wade the Gila	Lush forest	Martina hikes with skull!
Used car for sale	Sunrise on Wagontongue Mountain	Drowned rodent in the drinking water	Pie Town and the Pie-o-Neer cafe	Fellow hiker Ted in Gordon's van dropping off water supplies north of Pie Town
3 shadows hiking	Desert lizard	Brian collects resupply parcel from Grants PO	Mt Taylor summit (just like Scotland)	Our forced bivouac
5* hotel on Mt Taylor	Flower Mallow close up	2009 CDT Sunrise and a cactus shadow on the tent, New Mexico	Descending to the Rio Puerco	Yellow flowering cactus
Collared lizard	Storms over the Cabezon plains	Lizard posing	White flowers in the sand	The sandstone and juniper desert
Martina relaxes on the mesa edge	We walk through the town of Cuba NM	San Pedro high meadows north of Cuba NM	2009 CDT Heavy frost on the tent in San Pedro mountains, New Mexico	New Mexico Rio Chama Wilderness
Pink cliffs by the Rio Chama	Brian above Ghost Ranch, northern New Mexico	Corn lilly	Budlite- the state flower of New Mexico!	Brian tries for a GPS signal
At Sullivan Tank northern New Mexico	We hit snow!	Loving message on a water tank	Hiking over snow drifts, northern New Mexico	8 hiking feet
The Colorado border after 650 miles

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Dougie Young		16-Jun-2013 21:33
Fantastic gallery, thanks for sharing your amazing adventure through my favourite American State..:>

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