We woke to snow on the top of the foothills above our campsite and decided it was time to move! We crossed into AZ, camped in the Pinal County Campground, cruised through Las Cruces, bypassed El Paso and headed north to the Guadelupe Mountains National Park on the Texas/New Mexico border.
Even though the RV parking is just a parking lot we rather like this place. There are over 80 miles of hiking trails including one that goes to the top of Guadalupe Peak, the tallest point in Texas at 8749 ft. We did NOT take that hike!
The hike we chose is called Devil’s Hall Trail at 4.5 miles total. It was one of the most challenging hikes we have taken this year. It started out going up and along one side of a steep canyon. I thought that might be the Devil’s Hall but then we droped into a dry wash strewn with lots of boulders and rocks so I thought this might be the Devil’s Hall. It felt like we walked over a mile up and over numerouse rock piles. Then we came to this break in the canyon wall with layered rocks like a grand staircase. Surely this was it but, no, we still had more to go. But not much because we had arrived at the Devil’s Hall. It is about 75 yards long and 12 feet wide , a narrow canyon of layered slate rock. It was quite amazing.
The campground host was posting a flyer on our windshield when we got back. The wind forecast for Sunday is 40-60 mph winds with 90 mph gusts! He has seen a 45 foot motor home blown over by these winds! Since it is not suppose to get that bad until 11 am we will try to leave early enough to miss the worst of it.
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