Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
Morning at Site 34, Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM, November 2, 2011
Situated 16 miles north west of Fort Sumner NM off US 84, Sumner Lake State Park is a good sized park with several campgrounds set around the dam. Sumner Lake State Park offers many activities, such as camping, hiking, swimming, wildlife viewing and fishing. The lake is home for many warm water species including walleye, bass, crappie, and channel catfish.
Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
- Verizon cell phone service - fairly good signal
- No Verizon EVDO service - connection is very slow.
- Go to Sumner Lake State Park website
- Go to Sumner Lake State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
- Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
- Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
- Thursday, November 3, 2011 - Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
- Friday, November 4, 2011 - Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
- Saturday, November 5, 2011 - Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
- Sunday, November 6, 2011 - Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
Five Trillion Spiders
Spiders begin their hunting with a few handicaps. They're often smaller and weaker than their prey, and they have no wings to give chase in the air. Some species extend their legs by hydraulic pressure, using the same liquid that carries oxygen from their lungs, so they have a hard time running and breathing at the same time. Even their poison may be no match for their victim's: a crab spider's bite is to a honeybee's sting as "an air-gun compared with an elephant rifle," John Crompton wrote. Yet spiders kill at an astonishing pace. One Dutch researcher estimates that there are some five trillion spiders in the Netherlands alone, each of which consumes about a tenth of a gram of meat a day. Were their victims people instead of insects, they would need only three days to eat all sixteen and a half million Dutchmen.
From Spider Woman by Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker magazine, March 5, 2007, page 69