Our ride from Cuba to Abiquiu, NM was a difficult climb up into the Santa Fe National Forest. We climbed a couple thousand feet then dropped into Georgia O'Keeffe's landscape. Her favorite Mountain is Cerro Pedernal. She painted it over and over again. She was known to say that if she painted it enough someday she would own it. Well we all own it now and the trail went all the way around it. It is the main massif around Abiquiu. I am a huge fan of O'Keefe so this part of the ride was fantastic for me.
Kevin with Pedernal in background...
In Abiquiu, Kevin and Jay went on a float trip down the Rio Chama. We had tried this river about five years ago and got turned around due to very high water and a number of flips in our canoe. Kevin and Jay went with Los Rios River Runners and did an overnight (this filled in space on CDT between Chama and Abiquiu. Then after that trip, during which Vicky painted the O'Keeffe landscape, we took the tourist train (narrow gauge) up to Cumbres Pass. Kevin did a solo trip to finish out the Great Divide Trail in northern New Mexico. The wind was horrific, and Vicky and Jay joined Kevin via car and then drove back to Chama. From there it was north so that Jay could visit the Colorado Timberline Academy (a boarding school he's very interested in). From there it was further northward...
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Above are two photographs of us coming into O'Keeffe landscape on the Great Divide...
Jay floating the Rio Chama, coming into O'Keeffe country.
Pedernal during sunset as we were on the Great Divide Trail -- taken from our campsite that evening.
Kevin about to start solo trip in northern New Mexico (at this point we're in Colorado, as the next sign makes clear)
The end of New Mexico, and from here onto Montana...
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