Photos: 2010: 20101125-28 AguirreSprings-DogCanyon Up

The Organ Mountains
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Campsite #36 in Aguirre Springs Campground
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Our set up with the solar panels deployed
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The solar set up
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Marine grade stainless 12 volt socket in the battery door
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View into the basin, White Sands in the far distance
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Starting the hike up to Baylor Pass
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"Rabbit Ears"
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Kathy under an Alligator Bark Juniper tree
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View up to the Organ Mountains
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View back to White Sands
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Top of Baylor Pass, looking east
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View to the west from the pass (Las Cruces)
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A memorial along the trail
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Who IS that old fart?!?
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View to the north from the pass
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"Baldy"
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Campsite #10 at Oliver Lee State Park outside Alamagordo
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HUGE century plant
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Desert garden at the park visitor center
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Trailhead sign
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Going up, view back to the campground
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Crossing from state to federal land
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Campground getting smaller!
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On the first "bench"
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Campground barely visible
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We're headed to the leftmost 'notch' up there
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The knob on the ridge looks like a fort
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On the second "bench"
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Lots of water (for NM) in the canyon
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Ruins of the old line cabin
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They had a nice location by the stream
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Up we go again
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We came up the other side
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View back into the Tularosa Basin
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Javalina skull along the trail
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Cow bone fragment at the Oliver Lee ranch
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These walls are the remnants of a movie set
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Restored Oliver Lee ranch house
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Movie poster
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Portrait of Oliver Lee
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In the house
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The kitchen
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All the walls are adobe brick and are about 16" thick
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Master bedroom
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Remnants of the barn
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Actual photo of the barn
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Wide verandas on the house provided cooling
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Remnant of the diversion channel to provide water to the ranch from Dog Canyon
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Frenchy lived in the mouth of the canyon
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Remnant of one of his stone walls
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Partial restoration of Frenchy's cabin
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Frenchy's stone wall goes up the side of the mountain
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View into the canyon from Frenchy's cabin
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Photo album generated by album script a free tool written by David Madison on Thu Dec 2 21:24:10 2010