GET Day 35: Gate and Fence Day

Daily Miles: 23.9, Total Miles: 508.4

I frequently hear coyotes howling and yipping in the early morning at home. What I heard howling this morning were not coyotes – they were a local wolf pack.

I call today the “Gate and Fence Day” – passed through at least a dozen gates and spent much of the day walking along various fences.

I continued my journey through the Black Range eventually turning east and leaving the CDT and a short time later at Wahoo Peak, steeply descending, my ankles screaming, from the Black Range out onto BLM rangelands with a series of stock tanks and plentiful cows, most with a newborn.

The sun went down before I could reach NM Hwy 52.

I saw 30 head of elk today and a couple doing a section on the CDT.