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Hiking Weekend in San Juan Basin Badlands Recreation Area

Date
Friday October 20 2017
Leader
Bill Priedhorsky
Leader Email
Difficulty
Moderate
Technicality
Intermediate
Are dogs allowed?
Not allowed

I'd like to explore a place I've never been - the badlands country west of Cuba, NM, which is within the relatively new San Juan Basin Badlands Recreation Area. What I've seen - an article in New Mexico magazine, see https://www.newmexico.org/nmmagazine/articles/post/badlands-hiking-8386…) sounds like a great place for an explore, with hoodos, bare rock, and other odd formations. We will be cross-country hiking in rough and trailless terrain.

This area is too far away for a day trip, so I have reserved a house at a bed and breakfast near Cuba with three bedrooms plus some living room space also suitable for sleeping. If we fill the place, the lodging should cost about $50 per night per person, plus $10 for a full breakfast each morning. We will head out on the morning of Friday Oct. 20, explore some that afternoon, and return to Los Alamos on the 22nd.

To hold a space I would appreciate a deposit of $100 per person. I'll decide whether the trip is a go based on the responses I receive by Tuesday Sept. 5 (I have a temporary hold on the lodging and need to make a deposit or not.

Plesae write me directly at bill@priedhorsky.net if you are interested.