Finally made it!  Rick will be taking a week off the trail now, so we can attend Greg and Cara's wedding in Riviera Maya, Mexico. Can't wait to see family and friends. He will continue the hike the first week in June.

The mountains are getting bigger everyday. The closer we get to the Rockies the more beautiful.

Never thought we would get out of New Mexico. I think it's been about 7 wks. now.

We spent the last two nights in the mountains together. It was so nice. We went to sleep hearing the coyotes helping and woke up hearing the Elk trumpeting. Pretty awesome. Heading towards Colorado today.

We are near Chama, N M.  I dropped Rick off this morning after a 28 mile day yesterday. It was pretty tough. Hiked through thigh high snow until he couldn't do it anymore, so then had to traverse back down until he came to a Forest service rd.

This is where I dropped Rick off this morning. Santa Fe National Forest.

I am staying in Abiquiu, N M. for the next 3 days, while Rick hikes through this area. So beautiful. I don't have cell service at the Inn where I am staying, so I drove 7 miles to the top of a mountain until I got service. CRAZY!

I dropped Rick off yesterday morning at the Los Pinos trailhead. Picked him up last night, as he was able to get out to a paved road. He had quite a day. He was at 11,000 ft. and ran into snow, then crossed two flooded meadows that were thigh high with snow melt that looked like lakes. It snowed and rained off and on most of the day. This is the worst weather he has run into in the past 6 weeks. I checked the weather and it should get nicer for the rest of this week.

Sorry I haven't been posting more often, but it's not always easy to get cell service in these mountains. Here we are having a down day at Circle A Ranch. What a wonderful place!

The scenery in Northern New Mexico is so beautiful. Rick took this from the trail.

The view from La Ventana Mesa on the trail to Cuba, MM.

Heading up to Mt. Taylor. Only 18 miles this day. A pretty tough day. Up! Up! Up! Here is a bit of info on this area.    Mt. Taylor is a volcanoe, but hasn't been active for over 1.5 million years. It's so strange that you can still see the lava beds everywhere. Mt. Taylor is located in the Cibola National Forest, which covers more than 1.6 million acres in New Mexico. The mountain is an area of special religious and cultural significance to several Native American communities. Like the Navajo, Acoma, Laguna and Zuni tribes.

While at the top of El Morro we visited these Pueblo Indian ruins. Amazing!

Climbed 2 miles to the top of this mountain in El Morro National Monument.

This was the same morning Rick saw Black Bear tracks and Mountain Lion tracks. Good thing I didn't know it until the end of the day. Yikes!

This was home one night out in the middle of no where.

Just one of the many herds of Elk we have seen.

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument.