Black Mesa

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October 27, Wednesday
Capulin Volcano, NM
Drove a “Bob road” - all day. The first stop was Capulin Volcano; we hiked the rim and all the way down into the volcano. Wonderful scenery. Stopped for lunch at the country store, and then on to Oklahoma. We made the high point in Oklahoma, which is the Black Mesa, named for the volcanoes found there. It was a 4.6-mile hike each way; that wasn’t the challenge, the challenge was we were losing daylight. We arrived just before 3 p.m., so we put a wiggle on and started out. The climb is under 1,000 feet, but then there is another mile + across the mesa at the top, one of the largest mesas in the world, to the monument. We did it and were back to see a full moon just rising by 6 p.m. - 9.2 miles in 3 hours, whew! Since it gets dark early in the canyon, we hightailed it to the Black Mesa State Park Campground - a beautiful campground, plug-in’s, cement pads, it was just that it was very dark and sort of winding through cattle country, but we arrived safe and sound.

October 28, Thursday
Oklahoma
Another driving day, across Oklahoma Panhandle - talk about a long drive, all the way to Keystone State Park Campground, just outside of Tulsa. We chose this because of the bike trail, the Katy Trail, which we’ll hope to do tomorrow.

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Photos

Moon over the mountains
This was shot coming off the highpoint in OK

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greetings
This is a terrific site. Thanks for sharing. MR - Martha Raak