weekend
just got back from the chiracahuas. molly blogged and pic'd very well again with all that and I don't want to overlap too much. I must put in my two cents though.
this place is amazing. I know that pictures never do justice to a sense of scale, but I think these pictures do a close job to justice. with a little imagination and some keen observation, one can start to get a sense of what is going on out there. if you've seen or been in the organs, for example, this place is about the organs time 10 or 15. if you've been to city of rocks, then city of rocks is elk river and chiracahua is new york city.
look closely at the pictures. first of all, they may seem kind of monotonous. they are not. we were actually taking pictures of completlely different areas of the park. what looks like different angles of the same area are actually completely different pictures of many different areas. this place is huge--on and on with these crazy ass rock formations. another note: the average size of on of these rock formations is roughly 75-150 feet tall. go back and look at a few of those pictures where it seems that there are a bunch of little ones spread accross a broad area. those aren't little ones, they are full size formations. that broad area is a huge expanse of mountain valley. one cannot get ones mind around it while hiking in it. best to just look and keep walking.
another note, regarding the other side of the park, the side we drove out of on sunday: look at the base of some of those rock faces. notice the trees that dot the base. those are gigantic mountain junipers and firs, many with trunks bigger around than one person can wrap around. those are the kinds of trees that dot the mountain side. now look at the pictures again. notice how small the trees look at the base of the rock faces. these faces are literally thousands of feet in vertical expanse. the "sugarloaf" looking peak must have been at least 2000 vertical feet from peak to tree line. and this type of rock face is 360 degrees around you, with faint hints of more rock faces behind those and behind those yet again.
literally multiple lifetimes of climbing. I have no idea why this place is simply a national forest. it is among the most amazing natural sites I've ever seen, surely one of the most impressive rock playground I could imagine.
most people in cruces have never heard of it.
this place is amazing. I know that pictures never do justice to a sense of scale, but I think these pictures do a close job to justice. with a little imagination and some keen observation, one can start to get a sense of what is going on out there. if you've seen or been in the organs, for example, this place is about the organs time 10 or 15. if you've been to city of rocks, then city of rocks is elk river and chiracahua is new york city.
look closely at the pictures. first of all, they may seem kind of monotonous. they are not. we were actually taking pictures of completlely different areas of the park. what looks like different angles of the same area are actually completely different pictures of many different areas. this place is huge--on and on with these crazy ass rock formations. another note: the average size of on of these rock formations is roughly 75-150 feet tall. go back and look at a few of those pictures where it seems that there are a bunch of little ones spread accross a broad area. those aren't little ones, they are full size formations. that broad area is a huge expanse of mountain valley. one cannot get ones mind around it while hiking in it. best to just look and keep walking.
another note, regarding the other side of the park, the side we drove out of on sunday: look at the base of some of those rock faces. notice the trees that dot the base. those are gigantic mountain junipers and firs, many with trunks bigger around than one person can wrap around. those are the kinds of trees that dot the mountain side. now look at the pictures again. notice how small the trees look at the base of the rock faces. these faces are literally thousands of feet in vertical expanse. the "sugarloaf" looking peak must have been at least 2000 vertical feet from peak to tree line. and this type of rock face is 360 degrees around you, with faint hints of more rock faces behind those and behind those yet again.
literally multiple lifetimes of climbing. I have no idea why this place is simply a national forest. it is among the most amazing natural sites I've ever seen, surely one of the most impressive rock playground I could imagine.
most people in cruces have never heard of it.
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