No more than an hour after I arrived at the Red River house, Lucy Ann, Jack, and I departed in their four wheel drive vehicle to explore the Old Red River Pass Road. I took these pictures from about 4:00 PM till dark some 2 hours later. Please note that the Red River referred to on these pages is not the large river well know as forming the border between Texas and Oklahoma. It is a small mountain stream coming out of the Mountains in North Central New Mexico. After exiting the canyon giving it birth near the town of Red River, it continues its short course to enter the Rio Grande near Taos.
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In olden days this rough unpaved road over the mountains had been the sole link for the town of Red River with the greater outside world. Today it is a quaint trail through the mountains accessible to hikers, four wheel drive vehicles and other off road conveyances. The picture is a typical view from this road. I think one of the distant mountains is Wheeler Peak that at over 13,000 feet is the highest point in New Mexico.. |
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When I arrived it was the beginning of the last week of September. The Aspen foliage had just changed from summer green to autumn gold with varying shades and hues depending on way the sun light lit the individual trees. Sometimes the subject of the picture was a small clump; at other times it seemed that much of a mountain side was aspen.
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I am pictured below at a sign giving the elevation several hundred feet below the summit. Jack and Lucy Ann are shown to the right a bit further up the trail.
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Here (above left) the town of Red River sits in the shadows of its surrounding mountains while I take its picture. The picture to the right was taken at a lower elevation with all the optical zoom engaged. It shows the vacation home subdivision developments in the Red River valley above the town. |
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