5/10

Did a 28, 32, and 25 to get back into Lordsburg, quick resupply and I’m back in it tomorrow to Silver city 76 miles off. Good stuff down here. Trail is pretty undeveloped, sometimes it just disappears but navigation is easy in the desert.

Our shuttle driver tells us stories about people who got lost, ran out of water, and had to be rescued by border patrol. Stories of a hiker who showed up with 2L of water, no maps, and no gps.

The road is extremely rough, and I’m relieved once we hit the border. We hop out of the 4×4, our driver takes a photo, and gets the hell out of there.

At the Mexican border

Desert water source, probably the best one I’ll get

Found an old ghost town outside of Hachita

The desert down here is expansive. The distant sound of a border patrol helicopter is my only human contact.

Morning after it rained all night on my tarp