Breathtaking - quite literally! We drove up from Ruidoso to an altitude of around 9,000 feet. It's been a while since we've been at that level and it was hard to draw breath at times. The views were hardly breathtaking though, as they were obscured by a thick layer of cloud, and we were right in the middle of it. The route through the Mescalero Indian reservation had been pretty but as we got higher and higher, we drove into thicker cloud. By the time we reached Cloudcroft we could hardly see the side of the road so we went straight through town and descended a little on the other side. We stopped at the viewpoint where you are supposed to be able to see an old wooden trestle railway bridge. There we were greeted by
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