Just finished 5 days motorcycle camping mostly in New Mexico. Started out on Saturday from Tucson, heading east on Redington Road. Shot a couple of videos that I've uploaded to youtube.
After that I visited Dad's cabins on Mt Graham (pic to be uploaded) and then crossed the border in to New Mexico, where I spent most of the next four days in and around Gila National Forest, crossing and recrossing the continental divide.
Here's the sign marking the start of the Continental Divide Trail I rode on Saturday. I would say it was a perfect 10 in terms of trail difficulty, scenery and weather. It just could not have been better. This sign was accurate by the way. It is at least 120 miles to any kinds of services.
The first part of the trail looks like this.
Here are a couple of videos.
The trail winds up and down and in and out the mountatins. The scenery is spectacular and impossible for me to capture with my limited photography skills. This image should give you an idea. It was taken shortly before the descent into Black Canyon.
Later in the afternoon I came across this view. Those are cattle in the distance, and a small lake behind them.
Unfortunately my phone (also camera) was not charging well while I was riding. So I don't have many more pics. Here's an early morning picture of one of the more memorable places I camped. It was in the high plains outside the town of Reserve, NM. There were cattle in the area, the occasional mooing adding some real wild west ambience. At night, the coyotes and mexican wolves were calling. Something big and hooved walked right through my camp early in the morning. Elk?
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