Journey Day 495 | CDT Day 158

I drank boiled tea from a stock tank.

11/19/87

Begin early. Sun quickly takes freeze off. Cowboy with trailer can't believe I'm walking. Long climb up mesa. Hot! Hit shade by graveyard for Perry, a former rancher.

Then pass fellow in woodcutting business for the first of several times.

Take meal, use snow when windmill by abandoned ranch structures not operating. Then on down, Lester Jackson, and Magdalena ex-ranger pass headed home from coyote hunting. Talk, Lester offers me lodging. Drink water, he gives me more to carry me through the night. Earlier I drank boiled tea from stock tank, water taken by breaking through ice. Soon the sun behind the ridge, head into a pinon stand, pitch, camp and cook in growing darkness. Read and crash.