NM Adventure Series

The roads weren’t bad at all there was still some snow but basically dry otherwise. We got lucky and found two trees right next to each other.

 

Everyone down there in NM have a safe and merry Christmas. Hope somebody is getting out somewhere.

 

Thanks man @tomtom

Merry Christmas my NM taco bros!

 

Cause I live in NM and had an adventure.... (next I think I will try to hit trails in Socorro or Elephant butte?)

Wife and I an awesome weekend in SE Utah around Blanding and Bluff. Off-roading, a big dinosaur bone in situ, dinosaur tracks, 6 ruin sites, 10? Petroglyph/pictograph sites, about 500 shards of pottery across different locations (which we did not keep of course). And perfect sunny warm weather. Mid 50s during the day. We didn’t camp cause we thought it would be too cold at night, it wasn’t and we should have.

Large dino bone S of Blanding

Butler Wash dino tracks

Target Ruin

Old Highway between Cottonwood Wash road and county road 263 rated 3.0 of 5.0 on the jeeper off-roading scale. Rocky but not bad.

Tower House ruin
Old Highway petroglyphs

House on Fire ruin

Moon House ruin - really cool place

Cool breakfast spot along the San Juan river

River House ruin and pictographs


Butler Wash petroglyphs (Kachina panel)

Wolfman panel and ruins

So so many pottery shards.

Goosenecks S.P. For a lazy sunset on lawn chairs


Cottonwood Horse Panel

 

Great writeup, deekyn!

 

last minute glamping trip to the Gila, then was planning to hit the Chloride ghost town road on the way back but it started snowing heavy, and i haz no winch yet. so we continued on the pavement back home

but we camped at Grapevine campground and it had 2 river crossings

 

wow man, trip of a lifetime, i cant wait to do those ruins at Cedars Mesa sometime. Was gonna do it last year but my friend bailed. Woke up on Cedar Mesa, it was raining, he said “I cant do this, I’m out, can u take my to Salt Lake City? Im going back to Brooklyn.”

 

Nice thing is that those are all close together and easy to get to with 4wd and short hikes. And close to NM! Totally worth it.

 

Grapevine campground is a nice little spot. We always stay there if we get a late start from home and don't want to hunt for something else. I haven't seen that much water in a while.

 

Looks like a good time, I totally didn’t think there would be that much water down there right now.

reminds me of a trip a few of us took a couple years ago on the NMBDR in November. Ended up breaking tracks from Corner Mountain down to Reserve it was a bitch sketch haha.

 

I learned a new slang phrase!

 

@Tim801 I’ve been known to throw a fly here and there

 

This past weekend @TacoIII, another friend, and myself took a drive up the crest then the back road down to Placitias. Nice day drive with some good snow on hwy165.

 

It never accrued to me that I should also post the meet here as well, info below.

MEET UPDATE

I'm not sure if anyone is interested, but here is a map of the route (blue) we'll most likely take on Saturday. Of course, people can break off and do their own thing or head out whenever but I figured it might be helpful for those of you not familiar with the area. Most of the obstacles are at the west end of the Puerco, so we'll probably stop by Snoopy for lunch & a few wobbly pops. On the way out, we can drop by the dune at Windmill Hill, then swing by the Ledges and see who wants to catch some sweet air.

On another note, if you've got 2way radios, bring them. They can be helpful to talk shit or spot I've got a couple others can use.

See you all Saturday.
Date: Saturday Feb 6th
Time: 9:00am
Where: Puerco near the main dune around hereish 35.244102, -106.862020

 

Looking forward to getting out there, been a few years since ive done some serious wheelin.

the others that were thinking of tagging along will not make it. So just me and M’lady

 

Sweet, it'll be a good time maybe they can join next trip.

 

Hate to do this to you guys, sadly both me and my buddy are out with medical reasons. Buddy of mine is older and docs switched his oxygen tanks so they won’t last long enough for this trip.

Got recent news that I’ll need emergency surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, so I’ll be taking it easy tomorrow and spending time with the fam before leaving. Count me in for the next one! You guys have fun out there!

 

Maybe next time, working!

 

Hope all goes well

 

thanks so much! Had my last one 8 months ago so hopefully this is the last and I can put this behind me! So appreciate it