We had a couple of options to climb New Mexico’s Highpoint, Wheeler Peak (13, 161 ft.) We ended up taking the Bull of the Woods trail up and the Williams Lake trail down. Because we didn’t end up at the same trailhead, the only bad thing was that we had to walk down the road for 2 miles back to our car. The Bull of the Woods trail was about 8 miles up and the Williams Lake trail was substantially shorter but in the end we put on over 13 miles for this climb. The weather was sort of dicey and as we got closer to the summit we thought we might have to turn around due to storms. But, in the end the storms blew over and we were happy that we decided to proceed. We met two men on the trail that had driven from PA to climb Wheeler Peak and after a few minutes of discussion, they turned around. Too bad that they didn’t stick with it as the weather eventually cooperated…

Joel and I were both pretty tired but we got the car loaded back up and then drove several hundred miles into New Mexico to get closer to Mt. Humphrey’s in AZ which was our next “target.”