"Wuss in Boots"

“Check out this article about someone's love/hate relationship with backpacking. Some of it may sound familiar.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2088073/”

“That was a pretty good story, and sorta sums up how I feel about backpacking. Dread it until I get on the trail, then it's great.”

“21 miles? That was just the first day, right???”

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On a Friday afternoon, we would enter it by way of a hard-to-find trailhead east of the town of Truchas, leading 2,000 feet east and up to a beautiful 11,400-foot meadow at the base of the Truchas Peaks, a quartet of thirteeners that are the third through the sixth tallest mountains in New Mexico.”

“I guess I have to go back to the HTML test thread.

These are pics of the Truchas area(and a couple of odd pics) he talks about. We did the 3 Truchas peaks in a day.

Truchas Peaks”

“Holy cow, Pathman, that's spectacular. I keep tellin' Ma Goose that we need to move to New Mexico...”

“ya got that right. where in N.M. is that Pathman.”

“Truchas, Mapquest

Truchas Townsite on Topozone

Truchas Peak

The town of Truchas is a very old Spanish town, used to film "The Milagro Beanfield War"”

“and great photos. funny reading, cause there are many times in during my hikes that I say to myself "wtf am I doing and am I going to die doing it this time?".”