RE: [Philmont]: Hiking in the Valle Vidal

Donnie,

We did Trek 9 with a mere 3 days in the Valle. We loved it. I wish we
had done more  gone all the way to Whiteman Vega. We stayed at Rich
Cabins which is not all that remote, but very enjoyable. We all got into
homesteading  watering and weeding the garden, feeding the livestock,
catching the chickens. We had bushwhacked through a burned out area to
get there from Dan Beard  short hike, but really depressing with no
greenery or birds. The next day we went into Greenwood Canyon and it got
greener and greener  full of quaking aspens and Colorado spruce. We
followed a road most of the way. There are several areas suitable for
camping along the road. We stopped at the second one and I think there
were several more further up. Ours was fairly level for tents, had a
stream running through it with a nice log bridge to get back and forth
and some good trees for bear bag hanging. Our afternoon activity was
relaxing and panning for gold with a Frisbee  later we learned that all
our gold was mica. The next day we hiked further up the road and found
an old abandoned mine. We left the road and headed through the woods for
Copper Park. Lots of downed, dead trees with sharp branches made for
lots of scraped legs. We ended up on an old mining road with 3 ft.
spruces growing in the middle of it  obviously not driven on for some
time. Those three days were the best hiking we did  not too easy
either. We had to get all our water out of streams. I highly recommend
the Valle. Tell Ted Turner we said hello.

Diane Mikulis
Troop 757, Glenwood, MD

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-philmont@troop47.com [mailto:owner-philmont@troop47.com]On
Behalf Of Donnie Scoggin
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:11 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
Subject: [Philmont]: Hiking in the Valle Vidal

Does anyone have any experence hiking in the Valle Vidal. For our
Autumn Adventure we were considering this area. We have even considered
going off Philmont on a 22 mile trip to Beattys Lake just north of the
Phlmont boundry.

Donnie Scoggin
Headed west in 17 days

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Received on Wed Sep 3 21:17:23 2003