Sunday, January 20, 2008 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM
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A hike up to the first bench
One thing I'd like to do while I'm here is hike up the Dog Canyon Trail as far as the Fairchild Line Cabin 2.9 miles and 1500 ft in elevation above the trailhead at the campground. That's about the limit of what this dilapidated body wants to take on in its present condition. Today I got well up onto the first bench, a sort of ledge running along the south side of the canyon. I made it to the 1.25 mile marker and turned back. That was far enough to test my condition and it looks like I should be fit enough to make it up to the cabin and back without beating myself up too badly.
Today's journey: A mile and a quarter up the Dog Canyon Trail.
Night camp
Site 8 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - very good signal and access speed ( I have to qualify this - during my January 2008 visit the signal and access speed was excellent - in January 2009 it was practically non-existent during the day and slow at night with unpredictable short periods of excellent access)
- Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park website
- Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park on my Nightcamps map
- Check the weather here
Mix With the World
I am convinced our own happiness requires that we should continue to mix with the world, and to keep pace with it. . . . I can speak from experience on the subject. From 1793 to 1797, I remained closely at home, saw none but those who came there, and at length became very sensible of the ill effect it had upon my mind, and of its direct and irresistible tendency to render me unfit for society, and uneasy when necessarily engaged in it. I felt enough of the effect of withdrawing from the world then to see that it led to an anti-social and misanthropic state of mind, which severely punishes him who gives in to it; and it will be a lesson I never shall forget as to myself.
John Adams