Hiking New Mexico's Aldo Leopold Wilderness

by Bill Cunningham, Polly Cunningham

Overview

This guide contains the most wild and rugged portion the Black Range, with its deep canyons and ridges rising above desert. A short section of the Continental Divide Trail is only part of the many miles that unfold in this excellent hiking guide.
TWS

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762711031
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/2002
Series:	Regional Hiking Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	282
Sales rank:	973,656
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Bill Cunningham and Polly Burke are lifelong hikers and wilderness advocates. They have collaborated on several other FalconGuides, including Hiking California's Desert Parks and Hiking New Mexico's Gila Wilderness.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Legend	xi
	Overview Map	xii
	USGS Topographical Map Index	xiii
	State Locator Map	xiv
	Introduction	1
	Wilderness and Aldo Leopold	1
	The 1964 Wilderness Act	2
	Natural History	3
	Human History	5
	Hiking in the Aldo Leopold Wilderness	6
	Climate and Weather	6
	Wilderness Management, or Management of Visitors	8
	Overview of Recreational Use	8
	Aldo Leopold Logistics, or Front Country Essentials	9
	Safety and Preparedness	10
	Zero Impact	12
	How to Use This Guidebook	13
	Hike Finder	16
	Circle Seven Trailhead	19
1	Circle Seven Creek	19
2	Circle Seven-Diamond Peak	23
	Morgan Creek Trailhead	27
3	Morgan Creek	27
4	Morgan-North Seco Creeks	30
5	Spud Patch-North Seco Creek	34
	Seco Creek Trailhead	40
6	North Seco Box	40
7	North Seco-Morgan Creek	44
	Bald Hill Trailhead	48
8	Cave Canyon	48
9	Las Animas Creek	51
	Ladrone Trailhead	56
10	Ladrone-Hillsboro Peak	56
11	Ladrone-Gallinas	60
	Emory Pass Trailhead	65
12	Hillsboro Peak	65
13	Emory Pass-Gallinas Canyon	69
14	Emory Pass-Holden Prong	73
15	Emory Pass-Prongs	79
	Gallinas Canyon	86
16	Lower Gallinas Canyon	86
17	Railroad and East Railroad Canyons	88
18	Gallinas and Railroad Canyons	92
19	Sids and Holden Prongs	96
	Crest Trailhead	103
20	Crest-Emory Pass	103
21	Crest-Gallinas Canyon	108
22	Sids Prong Saddle	111
	Pretty Canyon Trailhead	114
23	Pretty Canyon-Crest Trail	114
	McKnight Trailhead	119
24	Flower and Water Canyons	119
25	McKnight Mountain	124
26	Mimbres Lake	127
27	McKnight-Mimbres	130
28	McKnight-Mimbres Forks	135
29	McKnight-North Seco	141
	Powderhorn Canyon Trailhead	147
30	South Fork Powderhorn Canyon	147
31	Powderhorn-McKnight Mountain	149
	CDT-Mimbres Trailhead	152
32	Signboard Saddle	152
33	Lower Mimbres River	155
34	Mimbres River Forks	158
35	Mimbres-Black Range Crest	161
36	Mimbres-CDT	168
37	CDT-Black Canyon	173
	Rocky Point Trailhead	181
38	Rocky Point	181
	Black Canyon Trailhead	185
39	Black Canyon	185
40	Black Canyon Box	189
41	Black Canyon-CDT	193
42	Black Canyon-Mimbres	201
43	Black and Morgan Canyons	206
	Meown Hill Trailhead	212
44	Meown Hill	212
	South Diamond Creek Trailhead	216
45	South Diamond Creek	216
	Diamond Creek Trailhead	218
46	Diamond Creek	218
	Turkey Run Trailhead	220
47	CDT-Diamond Creek	220
	Caledonia Trailhead	225
48	Upper Caledonia Trail	225
49	Diamond Peak	228
50	Diamond Peak-Diamond Creek	233
51	Diamond Peak-South Diamond	237
52	CDT	242
53	Caledonia-Emory Pass	250
Appendix A	For More Information	261
Appendix B	Further Reading	263
Appendix C	Hiker Checklist	264
	About the Authors	267