Hatch New Mexico
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Bob Marley- Draw Your Brakes
We pulled back on the Gunship throttle and decided to take a look around Las Cruces NM
It’s been at least a couple of decades since we’ve been here.
Quite a nice little town on the Rio Grande will plenty of green Chile for eating and mountains for climbing.
We decided to try a little of both.
We found the local breakfast joint (The Shed) in Las Cruces and fueled up for our first real trail of the trip.
The Organ Mountains lie to the east of town and we spend a couple hours hiking the Dripping Springs Trail.
Apparently the rattlesnakes have holed up for the winter. We neither saw nor heard them
We spent the night at a hotel and freshened up for the next day.
There’s a nice park almost in town on the Rio Grande with plenty of raptors flying round.
We spend a little time looking around and chatting up some of the locals
From there we rolled up the west side of the river toward the Robledo Mountains.
The Prehistoric Trackways National Monument was our destination.
Met some locals in the parking lot and set out for an hour or two of hiking on the Ridgeline Trail.
From there we followed the river up to Hatch, ate some more Chile and rolled on to Deming before dark.
Enjoyable couple of days
Corned Beef Eggs Benedict with Green Chile Hollandaise - Chicken Fried Steak with eggs and Green and Red Chile (Christmas Tree)
The proverbial Eensy beensy spider
The valley is changing over from Chile production to more and more Pecan tree orchards
Eensy beensy? I think not
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