NMBDR Day 7 Abiquiu NM to Antonito CO, New Mexico Backcountry Discovery Route

Last day we decided not to do the technical section after the worry of running out of time. I’m not sure if it is part of the route any more there were talks of closing that section. So we took the alternate route which was a great road itself. Forest and high meadow for the most part all day. It was a nice section with a little mud here and there from the rain the day before. There were some neat section that were between a two track and a forestry road. This section had been closed till a week before we started. We road over 10,000’ elevation, went around a few snow drifts at higher elevations. At the end there were three water sections where the river had over flowed its banks. The sections were around 100 yards long with corners in them. There was no way to see the end of the water without walking it out or just riding through. All of them were rock and gravel luckily there was no washouts or problem areas in them. We finished the official route at 1303 miles in Antonito. We ate some lunch and headed on to Trinidad to meet my mother with the trailer, to haul them back home the next day. With a total of 285 miles for the day. The total trip from start to end was 1445 miles of mostly dirt.