3 very different days

Mexico (0) - Lordsburg (84mi/135km)

The first section is done! I´m back in Lordsburg - the small city where the adventure began a little bit more than 4 days ago.

The start has been smooth. The trip from Lordsburg to the famous "Crazy Cook Monument" took us about 2.5 hours. We´ve been 11 hikers in total on this day.

The south of New Mexico is - simply speaking - dry, sandy, windy and very flat. And there is the brutal sun!!! I´ve never experienced such a aridity before. We are drinking about 2 gallons of water a day - not sweating at all! You can actually feel the water being sucked out of you...

But no worries, there are enough water caches (thanks CDT-C) !

And - a big difference to the PCT - there is now "real" trail. You just have to hike through the desert, watching out for the next post mark...

At the momente we are a nice little group of 7 hikers, spreaded out during the day, but camping together in the evening. I enjoy being on my own and the freedom of going whereever I want to, but also the company of others at lunch or dinner.

Weather has been perfect ´till now, but also pretty windy. This means "cowboy-camping"

In conclusion, this desert is definitely too much of one-of-a-kind to be really described - but a good therapy for the soul.

Happy Trails :-)