{"id":396,"date":"2015-12-12T00:43:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/?p=396"},"modified":"2015-12-12T00:43:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:43:14","slug":"guadalupe-mountains-top-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Guadalupe Mountains &#8211; Top of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-imgp6589.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP6589.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-imgp6589.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOV 30, 2015 &#8211; After lunch in El Paso I drove on to Guadalupe Mountains National Park, which is at the west tip of Texas and features the state&#8217;s highest mountain, Guadalupe Peak (2667m). I didn&#8217;t go up there, but instead spent the night at a backcountry campground called Pine Top and then did a long loop hike before descending through Bear Canyon. Along the way were Bush Mountain (2631m) and Hunter Peak (2550m), which had nice views into the flatlands on both sides of the mountain range. For the following night, I drove to a free campground on BLM land that I had found on a website. I had to follow a dirt road that was almost too uneven for my low-clearance car, and when I got to a herd of cows I felt like I had to be in the wrong place, but then there was a sign that left no doubt that I had reached an official campground. <\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-imgp6552.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP6552.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-imgp6552.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agave parryi var huachucaensis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-imgp6565.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP6565.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-imgp6565.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cane Cholla<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-imgp6602.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP6602.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-imgp6602.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A big cane cholla<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-imgp6543.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP6543.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-imgp6543.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flatlands to the north<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-imgp6585.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP6585.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-imgp6585.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flatlands to the south<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-imgp6604.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP6604.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-imgp6604.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parks Ranch Campground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOV 30, 2015 &#8211; After lunch in El Paso I drove on to Guadalupe Mountains National Park, which is at the west tip of Texas and features the state&#8217;s highest mountain, Guadalupe Peak (2667m). I didn&#8217;t go up there, but instead spent the night at a backcountry campground called Pine Top and then did a<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/?p=396\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}