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| Hiking | 2.20 Miles |
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| no partners | | Fairly quick morning hike at Bluewater Lake State Park, before heading on into Santa Fe.
Made 2 attempts to hike the Dam Trail on the other side of the Creek. The Dam Overlook Trail I was on the day before, goes much further than the Park Map suggests and intersects the Pinyon Cliffs Trail that descends to Bluewater Creek. So I descended. The map shows it crossing the creek right after reaching the bottom, but well, it was early in the season for this park and the log that I believe they placed to cross over was not going to work. The water was too high and the log had fallen/drifted and was too short. I opted to not get wet and muddy thigh high or higher before I left to meet my friends, so I explored the banks back and forth as far as I could and then gave up trying to access the other side from this area. Went back up and continued to follow the Dam Overlook Trail, which continued north along the cliff until it disappeared.
Decided to take another stab at getting across from another trail labeled the Canyonside Trail that took off from another campground further north. When the Dam Overlook Trail disappeared, it was just 200 feet or so to the other campground road, so I just off-trailed to it and followed it to the other trail start. While I got just a bit farther along the creek on that trail, the crossing was also way under water, so I turned around again. Just wasn't meant to be I guess, but the birding wasn't too bad, and I got the legs stretched out a bit before hitting the road again. May return to this place another time and attempt this one again.
I would spend the next 3 weeks in the Santa Fe area at my friend's place just taking morning walks acclimating to about 6700 ft. That really helped a lot for the last 2 weeks of my trip, since I hadn't really done much hiking/walking in months. Spent a few hours one day checking out the touristy stuff in town. May do a walk/tour triplog for that. |
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