[cdt-l] Water sources through El Malpais

[Ginny & Jim Owen]

We found water from Pie Town up to the Malpais. Then the Cibola NF was 
closed so we didn't hike the section from the west side of the Zuni-Acoma 
Trail to town, so we don't know what was happening there.

Several hikers put water caches in the east side of the Z-A trail.  We 
really didn't need it at the time, since we had filled up at the windmill 
near the entry to the Cebolla Wilderness, but took some anyway (which was 
good since we ended up walking the highway instead of the trail to town.)

I don't know if Jonathan's maps show the Thomas Ranch, but it was a good 
water source about 14 miles north of Pie Town.  All the other water sources 
from town were dismantled. There was another well north of the Thomas' that 
had good water for the next day.  The Cebolla well had water for the third 
day.  There are other springs on Jim Wolf's route that we didn't take 
because we had heard that the ywere dry, but it turned out the hikers were 
following Jonathan's version, not the guidebook - which has more springs.  
We went up Armijo Canyon instead so we could check out the indian ruins.  
Because last year was so dry, Armijo was bone dry - but it is usually a good 
source. There were cow ponds that had water, but we skipped them.

This year is likely to be much wetter than last spring - so I wouldn't 
worry, except possibly about the stretch from the Z-A trail to town.

Ginny

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>From: Caryl Bergeron <caryl_bergeron at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: cdt-l at backcountry.net
>To: cdt-l at backcountry.net
>Subject: [cdt-l] Water sources through El Malpais
>Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:02:21 -0800 (PST)
>
>Looking at the combination of Ley's maps and Wolf's guide book it looks 
>water sources through the El Malpais area just south of Grants, NM are 
>quite scarce.  Ley's maps specifically point out several windmills that 
>have been dismantled or no longer work.  Can anyone who has done a NOBO 
>comment on what they found?  I'd be particularly interested to hear about a 
>low snow year such as 2005.  Also, is there a water list out there 
>somewhere?
>
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