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The Tooth of Time
What page of Philmont pictures could start out with anything but a photo of Philmont's most famous (and most overphotographed) landmark? Many treks have an intinerary that allows them to catch sunrise from the Tooth on their last day. |
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Baldy Mountain |
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Sunrise on Baldy Mountain
On one of my last days at Philmont, I hiked to the top of Baldy in time to catch the sunset, slept on top (the windiest night I've ever spent), and woke up at around 4 AM to take this picture of the sunrise. |
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Baldy again, as seen from the road to French Henry camp. |
| Me, sitting on the porch of the Baldytown trading post — one of the best views in Philmont! (Unfortunately, seen in a picture taken on a hazy day.) |  |
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Bottles in the window of a cabin at French Henry camp. |
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French Henry's Cabin
French Henry's real cabin, which isn't at French Henry camp — if you take the trail from French Henry to Copper Park, on the way you'll find a faint and disused trail that leads up the ridge to the cabin. It's supposed to be haunted . . . |
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Miranda Camp, with Baldy in the distance. |
| One of the many huge meadows in the Valle Vidal, with me included as a handy human guide to scale. |  |
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A crew begins a tour of the Contention Mine. |
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Scouts learn how to work the Cypher's Mine forge.
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Unique mobile on the porch of the cabin at Cypher's. |
| Not Cypher's, but pretty close: taken along the trail from Cito to Cypher's. |  |
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Paradoxically, some of my favorite Philpictures (like this rainbow shot) were taken not while I was deep in the backcountry, but just a few steps outside my office at Camping Headquarters. |
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Another rainbow — this is the only picture of this statue that I've ever liked.
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The sign is appropriate . . . taken on the trail that leads to the closing campfire ring where treks spend their last night before heading home. |
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Teepees at Apache Springs |
| An old wagon just outside the Kit Carson house at Rayado. |  |
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One of my best-ever deer photographs, taken just outside the cabin at Crater Lake. (Unfortunately, the deer photos meant that I ran out of film for the almost perfect bear photo op that came along a little later — we all barricaded ourselves in the cabin, and he sat outside, staring at us through the window until he got bored and went away). |
| The beginning of the trail to Fish Camp, not too far away from (New) Abreu. |  |
Kevin Hogan <khogan@Adobe.COM>
This page last revised August 7, 1999
