Northern Gila (CDT Area)

[southwestbackcountry]

Checking out different sections of the CDT here in NM, we took a trip last Thanksgiving in the area where the trail skirts around the northern side of the Gila and Aldo Leopold Wilderness areas.

A great area if youget a chance to go, just figure out your water scene.

Here's a short post with pics:
http://southwestbackcountry.blogspot.com/2013/09/bikepacking-in-northern-gila-striving.html

[wahday]

Been enjoying your NM excursion postings. Good to see another New Mexican out there! Jemez and the San Mateos are both on my list to explore in fact, so thanks for scouting that out for me  

I have bikepacked in the Zunis and the Chain of Craters area, both along the CDT sections and further abroad. Here is a link to my blog with some photos of different exploratory NM trips (both bikepacking and day trips). Go to "older posts" to see more:

http://highaltitudehomestead.blogspot.com/

Struggling with some cervical spondylosis at the moment and have not been on the bike for a month, which is almost as painful as my neck. Had to cancel another Zuni overnighter on early October which I have tentatively rescheduled for chilly mid-November. It all hinges on the state of my neck.

Ride on!

[southwestbackcountry]

Been enjoying your NM excursion postings. Good to see another New Mexican out there! Jemez and the San Mateos are both on my list to explore in fact, so thanks for scouting that out for me 

I have bikepacked in the Zunis and the Chain of Craters area, both along the CDT sections and further abroad. Here is a link to my blog with some photos of different exploratory NM trips (both bikepacking and day trips). Go to "older posts" to see more:

http://highaltitudehomestead.blogspot.com/

Struggling with some cervical spondylosis at the moment and have not been on the bike for a month, which is almost as painful as my neck. Had to cancel another Zuni overnighter on early October which I have tentatively rescheduled for chilly mid-November. It all hinges on the state of my neck.

Ride on!

Wahday, we've subscribed to your blog and happen to also be into your sustainable homesteading info. We share that interest as well. We've come to believe you are super rad.  Seems like we can count on some more from you.  Ski season is closing in. And so we've begun our yearly epic battle between biking and skiing.  And soon Ullr's cathedrals will subjugate us to worship every free moment we have.  Unless of course, the biking looks good.  Perhaps we can ride together sometime.

[wahday]

Nice! Yes, we should ride together sometime – day ride or even a bikepack. I check in here pretty often, so a PM will work within about a week or so. I am in ABQ and there is another guy who posts here (and who I have met up with) who has done some interesting trips - Jemez, down to Socorro and around the other side of Sandias and back to ABQ, etc. He's so rad his online moniker is Radtron...

We have some land out in the Zunis which is why I have done so many trips out that way. Its so lovely there and its great to have a home base to stage from. We are on the southeast end of the mountains and one trip I would like to do is to ride from our land up through the center of the range to the Hillso area (where they run the 24 hours in the Enchanted Forest event – some terrific single track). This would be a 2 nighter if it included a day to hang out and ride the singletrack there without gear. A spring/early summer trip.

Enjoy the skiing!