Dog Canyon, NM
About fifteen miles south of Alamogordo, NM is Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, a smallish park with some campsites and the trailhead for the Dog Canyon trail. Back in the 1880s the 9th US Cavalry had multiple skirmishes with Apache warriors who were using the canyon as a formidable stronghold. The trail climbs more than 3,100 feet in five miles which makes for some pretty steep inclines. Going all the way to the top would make for a ten-mile-long hike… a hike I didn’t have the time to complete today. I instead opted to hike to the three-mile point, the site of an old cabin built many years ago by some local rancher as well as a great frozen pond where I ate lunch. All in all I hiked for five hours and didn’t see a single person on the trail besides myself. It was deathly quiet and warm enough to hike without my jacket on. Quite a glorious day. Only one thing would have made it better…
Here are twelve photos I took along the way. Do you guys dig the wide images or what? I think they are a better representation of what I saw… you know… since our field of view is so much wider than any single shot from a camera can capture. My personal favs are the two with me in them.
