Lookout peak, feat. Wild Domesticated Horses at night and places I shouldn’t be

Holiday shutdown feels good man

Post squad movie night run

Whale sounds and wails of trauma, feat. Bestie Hannah

I listened to the annoying orange at the gym

This hike started by crossing state trust land, which I guess you need a permit for. I could’ve opened the gate and driven on it but I didn’t want to risk it so I walked the road. Not too far in I saw a random pull off, then began bushwhacking across the desert. I came across a horse/ game trail and followed that up a little canyon until it ended. It was beautiful. Once it disappeared I just made my own path up the ridge. 

I found the coolest rock ever, I wish I’d taken it but it was kind of big. One side was flat with and brown, the other sides were rounded and a different grey like a geode. 

I digress. I kept going up until I summited the ridge. I sent my friend Adam a video where I counted how many steps it took to find a cactus (the sun had completely set by this point). It was 10. I found the lookout peak road and summited. I sat on this nice concrete block near the las cruces radio center and opened his video response. He was going for a walk around Manchester, and said how many steps would it take to find a fenthead. He was walking for several minutes and reached 180 before he decided that it was 9 degrees out and they were probably hibernating somewhere other than their usual turf. With that, my phone died. 

I took in the view for awhile before starting down. I followed the lookout road down off the mountain until it intersected with Faulkner canyon rd. There was this dead end shoot off I could see on the map earlier at the intersection and I decided to check it out. The road ended at a huge turn around, and some animal (probably a javelina?) had walked straight across, shitting with every step. There were lots of weird concrete blocks, welded pipe structures, tires, and more. I found this weird double barrel almost grill looking thing I still don’t know the purpose of fenced in this area with no opening. Then I approached what at first looked like a stall, but turned out to be fenced in solar panels. There were these giant metal bins and one was labeled a well. Three of them were mid thigh height, and the fourth was at my head level. One of the three short ones was full of water. A stray bullet hole was causing the well to piss out a little stream, but the water level seemed stable. It also looked like it was full of… feces? I looked in the large one and it was filled to the top, and the bottom was full of tumbleweeds. There were hundreds of these little water bugs in it and I’d wondered how they got all the way out here in the middle of the desert. As I walked away I realized that shits McGee’s trail was walking away from that short bin. I think the javelina jump in it when it’s hot and shit in it all day and the return to the mountains for prickly pears. 

Followed Faulkner canyon rd on the way out. At some point, I could make out the reflectors on a trailer so I switched my headlamp to dim to not bother whoever this was whomst I probably shouldn’t surprise in the middle of the night far from other people. This is New Mexico, after all. As I walked up I saw a small reflection that moved, and when I side stepped it was still there. I turned my headlamp on and there were 4 eyes, taller than me, reflecting back. I immediately switched it on max brightness and it was 2 horses. They were standing outside of a long horse trailer which was hooked up to a truck. They didn’t have bridles or halters; they were just hanging out. I took a wide path around it and spoke out loud making it known that I meant no trouble and was just passing through.

A bit after this I could barely make out this strange structure. I went to walk up to it and I went through this bushes, ending at a funny little bottle of Mexican cerveza discarded on the ground and a barbed wire fence. The structure looked like a homemade water tower, and possibly a solar panel and something else? Probably shouldn’t be there either. Went on my merry way and after another 0.5 mile or so I hit a sign that said I was entering the state trust land… when did I leave it?

P.S. I don’t have any pictures of the mountain because I had to cross over two false summits before I even saw it towering overhead

P.P.S. I did lots of intermittent jogging I have no idea how much

P.P.P.S. It was mid 60s and I was sweating in my short sleeve shirt

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Lookout peak, feat. Wild Domesticated Horses at night and places I shouldn’t be

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Lookout peak, feat. Wild Domesticated Horses at night and places I shouldn’t be

Holiday shutdown feels good man

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Whale sounds and wails of trauma, feat. Bestie Hannah

I listened to the annoying orange at the gym

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