hiking (trails) 1:34:15 [1] 6.27 km (15:02 / km) +33m 14:38 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Borderland State Park, with Nancy. About 30 years ago, I was looking at possible places for NEOC to map, and this looked like a possibility. I brought it up, and Barry Callahan said he'd been there it was way too thick. We went for a hike today, in mid-winter, and it seemed not too bad. Topography pretty interesting, overall very little relief but lots of features one or two contours high. Quite a lot of mappable boulders, some very large, and stony underfoot in places. Seemed like a fairly dense trail network. The woods were not incredibly open, but the offending vegetation looked to be about knee-high and not thorny, so visibility was pretty good. We certainly have areas with worse green, some of which are considered to be good maps. Pretty good size parking lot, but even on a day in late January, it was full (popular with mountain bikers and disc golfers, as well as casual hikers). But it looks like there re some fields within the park property that could maybe be used for parking. I'd say it has potential, though not a real priority -- it's not like our other maps in that part of the state get a lot of use.
