I appreciate your post.  Being a native New Mexican I appreciate the sentiments expressed in your blog.  I also agree with the idea that adventure is a place in your heart not far away from home.  I have been using the county buses and train to create adventures from my house in downtown Albuquerque.  It's actually quite convent for bikepacking adventures in New Mexico, Thank you again.

Is meetup.com a worthwhile way of rallying folks to organize rides for your area.  I'm at a lost I have gone a few bickpacking trips solo.  My family gets scared when I do this for safety reasons.  I'm not sure how to find other people to go with me.  I ask my moutain biking friends but they think I'm crazy.  Has anyone used meetup in their local areas to find local bikepackers.

I was looking at connecting railrunner to CDT up north through jemez to cochiti to the rail runner if anyone has time to do this trip let me know.  My schedule is fairly open. I would like to go soon before it gets too hot.

I'm not computer savy enough to shrink my photo sizes to post to the forum.  Yeah I basically connected to the GET route from Belen.  I think it's possible to do this in one night but I would'nt want to. Need more daylight then what's available in the fall and spring and wouldn't want to do it in the summer.  This section is mostly fire road and jeep road until you get the single track section of the east mountains. It would be possible to poach the wilderness area and take the crest trail but that's a little tricky.  The Bike GET is different then the Walking GET because of the designated wilderness areas.  I also just got a bunch of CDT topos and have been looking at doing some kind of loop using the raill runner and CDT , or GET and CDT or some combination of all of the above. 

I guess I should update you on my East mountain GET experience.  I attempted to ride the East mountain single track to Belen.  When I reached Isleta Pueblo land I was discovered by tribal police.  They allowed me to bomb down a road through Hell's Canyon and then they gave me a ride in their truck to the rail runner.  It was getting close to dark so I took the rail runner to Belen and stayed with some relatives over night.  I then took off for the Manzano mountains via the highway that connects Belen to mountainaire.  I took the fire road up through priest canyon to red canyon campgrounds.  I camped over night then road to the town of manzano refueled with water and snacks and headed for fourth of july canyon.  Near fourth of july canyon i took a jeep road north through forest service land to the Chilili Land grant.  I then took an old jeep road up the land grant boundary back to Isleta Pueblo.  I camped near the border of Isleta Pueblo, the air force base and the town of Cedro.  I had to stealth camp that night fortunately the moon was full enough.  I then got up early morning packed up and headed back to albuquerque via the highway.  This trip took one night more than expected and I needed to take care of business in town before I had to return to work.  Because I bypassed the single track route back to town I got home at 1030 in the morning.  Good trip.  I hope to find some other bikepackers in central new mexico to ride with.  I like using the rail runner and connecting busses because I can do big loops and end up back at home when I'm done. 

This might be late notice but I am in Albuquerque and have a some days off.  I'm looking to go out for a cool weather trip maybe GET from Albuquerque to belen then Rail Runner back to Albuquerque. Let me know if your interested.  Plains of St. Augustine sounds good as well.