Black Mesa

We got up pretty early Saturday morning so we could get to Black Mesa and get the 8 mile hike under way and over with. Let me just say that we checked the weather earlier in the week and it showed that it was supposed to be in the fifties. We thought we can handle fifty degree weather so it wasn't going to be a problem. Well when we got up not only was it thirty-seven degrees, but it was also raining. Talk about flipping cold. But we went ahead and took off for Black Mesa. We found the ranger's station and talked to the ranger just to make sure that that type of weather didn't mean we couldn't hike and it didn't.

Our first stop was the overlook and let me just say that this was the point where I was so cold that I didn't know if I would be able to do it. But I put on another pair of socks and a fleece jacket and thought ok I can do this.

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 We finally found where the trail started and even though it had stopped raining it was still cold because the wind was blowing, but we took off anyway.

They did have these benches at every mile marker, you know to take a break if you needed to (I needed too hehe).

This little flower was just sticking up and looked so bright that I had to take a picture of it.

Almost to the top. It was a long four miles let me tell you.

But we made it!!!

And it was even colder up there. My hands were so cold I'd be willing to bet that what I wrote in the notebook you can't even read, but oh well I know I was there and did in fact sign it. Then we had to go back the four miles to. Needless to say it didn't take as long to go down as it did to come up. While I froze my butt off, I'm glad that I did this and can now say that I have been to the highest point in Oklahoma. My next weekend road trip won't involve hiking though. hehe

It rained off and on all day and this is what my pants looked like by the time we made it back to the car. Have you ever had to hike with 10lbs of mud hanging off of you? It doesn't help I can tell you that.

Since we were only fifteen miles from Colorado we drove to the stateline to get a quick picture. I love Colorado and have family that live there. I've been trying to talk my husband into moving there for  awhile now and he isn't having it. Maybe in time! Then we had the 10+ hr drive back home. All in all it was a good weekend. I had a lot of fun.