Riding through the Ancestral Land of the Navajo
HWY 550 north from Cuba at Milepost 97 is Counselor. The road just south of the trading post going east is County Road 379. Check your odometer at it's cattlegaurd. Follow 379 for 8.7 miles to a junction where there is a stop sign facing backwards to you, a cell tower, and some big powerlines. Turn on the road that has the stopsign, under the powerlines and next to the cell tower. You are now in Largo Canyon. Follow that road (still 379) 16 miles, past Dogie Compressor station and the Truby Ranch to a school zone sign. You are there! Turn left at the stop sign and park in the gravel lot across from the school.
From Bloomfield, follow US 64 east through Blanco to almost milepost 75. Turn south on County Road 4450. Check your odometer as you leave the pavement. Stay on the main road 26 miles. Places you could turn the wrong way: the turn off to Cutter Dam about 3 miles in....you want to bear to the right and cross the bridge; the turn off to the Blanco Canyon Church, road 7007, about 7 miles in... stay on the main road (left). Landmarks are the Blanco Wash bridge, the hanging tree, Largo Canyon Compressor station. When you get to the school zone, look across the road from the building for the parking lot.
PARK SO THE OTHER 10 TRAILERS CAN FIT TOO (diagonally)
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Thursday
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Camp open for arrivals, Orientation at dinnertime, Drumming
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Friday
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Formation riding for safety; Anasazi pit house, petroglyphs of three cultures, along the bosque, Native American story telling or Archaeology presentation
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Saturday
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Changing Woman's Hogan, Ensenada Mesa, Moonlight Ride
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Sunday
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Trip to Crow Canyon, Hot tub evening
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Monday
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Split Rock and Tapacito Ruin
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Tuesday
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Four ruins of Superior Mesa
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Wednesday
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Ice Canyon & the Little Palluche
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THERE IS ALWAYS A VEGETARIAN ALTERNATIVE! Let the cook know your preferences.
Wake up early to a hot beverage, juice, and a pastry, then breakfast is served at 7:30 by which time the horses should be fed and cleaned. Breakfast is typical cafe style with the addition of breakfast burritos, and the ever-present option of green chile.
Lunch will usually be packed in your saddlebags unless the cook wants to meet us out on the trail with the chuckwagon. Sandwiches, cookies, fruit are the saddlebag option, barbecue and beans is the cooks option.
Everyone has a chore (assigned at breakfast). Everyone is expected to show up at breakfast even if they don't eat because that's when we meet formally as a group and cover any issues.