OHV 101 - Haystack Mountain OHV Area

 

OHV 101 – Haystack Mountain OHV Area

Our next adventure with OHV’ing was the following day, when we visited a very different environment.

But, before we got to the OHV area, we came across some pronghorn antelope on the road to the OHV area.  This guy was strolling down the middle of the road, but when he heard us, he trotted off the road, and then bounded (ever so gracefully) into the brush and out of sight.

And here’s an example of how different the terrain is at Haystack Mountain vs. the dunes where we were the day before.  This area overlooks the Pecos River, although we never did get to see it this time around.  There are over 1900 acres of trails to ride, although similar to the dunes area the day before, there wasn’t any sort of map to show us the trails that would be appropriate for us. 

As we started out, I had a chance to take photos of the lovely flowers that manage to grow in the rocky terrain.  In a way, it was not a good preview of what we came across.  We did run into a very rocky, steep incline that we went down, and then, in just a few yards, an even more extreme rocky and steep incline.  We decided this trail was beyond our capability and backtracked to find another trail.

As we drove slowly down the next trail, we came to this area, and weren’t sure if we were looking at an overlook or the edge of a steep downward incline the likes of which we’ve never seen!!  Thank goodness it was just a very pretty overlook.  We did see some other trails, but felt that somehow, we needed to get a better idea of what were actually trails and how they were rated.  Again, another lesson learned about what we didn’t know!!  But we’re not going to give up!!

Enjoy!