So has most of you have probably realized one of our favorite weekend pastimes has been hiking the mountains surrounding Las Cruces. It has become a Saturday ritual to sleep in and then take off for the Organs in the afternoon. I think one of our favorite hikes so far is the Achenbach trial. Tucker wrote an entry about it earlier without pictures. It is an unmarked trail that his hidden at the base of the mountains. We are lucky we heard about it from a friend because you have to maneuver off of two (also unmarked) dirty roads to get to the trail head. The best part of this hike is that we rarely see anyone on it and once you get past the first layer of mountains you feel like you are in a different planet. There are areas that look like villages of bolder creatures and then right next to them large green desert valleys (who know that even existed). The thing I can't get over is how large and BLUE the sky is. It is amazing! The green is starting to slowly fade so you can't see it in these pictures but a few weeks ago everything was this bright green/yellow and when it hit the bright blue sky it felt like you were in a psychedelic film.
Here are some pictures from our last hike in Achenbach.They aren't a lot different from our last hiking post but we figured we would post them anyway.
Sporting my new Camelbak!
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