Hyde Memorial State Park

Hyde Memorial State Park is an old state park just north of Santa Fe, NM and sits next to Santa Fe National Forest.  It's know for winter skiing, but it's also a nice change of pace from the dusty Santa Fe surroundings.

 The state park has a campground with some spaces for RVs.  These sites have electric only (30 amp) and appear large enough to hold a 35-37 ft motor home.  Some sites are reserveable, but most aren't.

One of the big pulls of the state park is it's circle trail.  It's a killer.  You start at 8,400 ft and climb 1,000 ft in 2 to 2.5 miles in one direction.  And that's the least incline of the trail!  Total trail length is 3.25 miles and it was at least a mile back to the truck.

 Didn't see a lot of wildlife until we started back down the road to the truck.  We saw deer cross in front of us.  They're much more skittish than the deer in Shenandoah.  They prance.  They look just like the highway warning signs.  And were way too quick for us to get pictures.  And like the white-tailed deer of Shenandoah, they travel in threes.

Only wildlife that would pose for us.

Our issue with the bedroom slide is resolved.  An air bubble got into the hydraulic ram for that slide and caused it to have some slack.  Turns out the solenoid for that slide wasn't closing all the way, either.  While we didn't find any hydraulic leaks, a couple of hydraulic lines were loose and got tighten during all this.

Next stop is Durango, CO.  The plan is to leave Santa Fe Monday and travel to a campground in Bayfield, CO (just east of Durango).  We'll see what the train schedule and availability to Silverton looks like and try to get a ride on it before we leave Colorado.  We're skipping Zion Natl Park and plan to head on over to California the following week to meet with Wayne and Debbie.

Ta ta for now. David
 

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