Trip #120 (51): Rio Grande Gorge & Red River

Trip #120 (51): Rio Grande Gorge & Red River 

Wednesday, July 13 - 18, 2022

Wednesday, July 13 — Arrived later in the day to Wild Rivers campground. #16 in Montaso CG, good spot, only 2 on this space and no one else here. Pretty warm so ran the a/c around 4pm. Whatever we do tomorrow, we best start it early.

Thursday, July 14 — Got an early start (up at 6am thanks to errant alarm clock), and hiked down to the Rio Grande River via the Big Arsenic trail. One mile down, 10 miles up. Would end up in the 90s later, so great we started about 9 or so. Rode bikes down the road to the trailhead, great campground here, all newly redone. Hike back up was killer, but we did it. Later drove over the the visitor center. It now being 94 degrees and the generator could not work hard enough (or get enough propane) to run the a/c properly so we just roasted for few hours, hoping it would rain, tho it never did. Did all around, but not here. Hot hot hot 

Friday July 15 — Moved up to Red River at Fawn Lakes CG. Unfortunately a recent flood washed out the lakes and nothing left but a dry lake bed. But our spot, #5 was roomy with shade and located next to the river. Set up camp and Sheila set up the Hummer feeders. Constant barge of hummers. Went to town to shop and ate at the Red River Distillery.

Saturday, July 16 — Went to town with bikes and rode around town. All trails are straight up and best for ATV's. Drove up the highway to 10K altitude, but most hikes are also straight up and full of ATV's. This is a suburb of Texas and that's what they do.

Sunday July 17 — Decided to drive up to Cabresto Lake near Questa. It's a rough 4WD road and met others turning around because of a broken down ATV blocking the road. So we went to town to Farmers market and the grocery store. Got water and just headed back to camp and sat around. Weather has been relatively cool with afternoon showers.

Monday July 18 — So due to the ever increasing heat wave and Sheila's lack of crafts to keep her busy, we decided to head home where temps are around 94-97°.

RIP: Ivanna Trump