A few miles northeast of Glenwood, NM is the Catwalk Recreational Area. There is a $5/day day use fee, although the old geezer pass avoids it. The trail is only 2.4 miles, and the first part is mainly flat, following a mining pipeline through Whitewater Canyon.
Callie wasn’t too excited in the beginning to walk on the catwalk but quickly learned that she wouldn’t fall through
The end of the catwalks is where most visitors stop their hike, but we continued on through three stream crossings to the end of the trail defined by Alltrails.
Eventually, the trail began climbing steeply, and we took a photo at the apparent top.
In fact, someone thoughtfully wrote on a rock that we had reached the end.
Alas, it only appeared that way because, with a short rock scramble, the trail continued on.
Not that there were any great things to see after that point, but I hate false summits.
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Last time I was messing around over there, years ago, disapointingly, the catwalk had been wiped out by a flood and not repaired yet.
Yes, one of the signs indicated that flooding was common and that the trail had to be rebuilt a few times.
While in that neck of the woods you might check out the town of Alma and Cooney's tomb. They're more places to see the country than actual destinations. Also, u might ask if they're still holding the kite festival and the rock shop in Glenwood was worth a stop.
Be careful in Reserve, it's full or right-wing wolf haters but the general store had some interesting local crafts (back then).
...full of, not or
If you can ever arrange to be in the neighborhood of Heber-Overgaard on the 4th of July, they have a SPECTACULAR fireworks display.
I’m pinning the places we haven’t seen yet. Spent a little time in Alma. That will be in the next post.
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