Thursday, March 1, 2012 - City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM
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Late Afternoon at Site 4, Cygnus, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, March 1, 2012
A tight fit
It was a tight fit but I managed to maneuver the rig and trailer into this nice site.
This is probably my favorite New Mexico State Park and it's been a couple of years since I've been here for an extended stay and I think I'll stay a while. The rock formations are endlessly fascinating and photogenic and I want to see if I can get some more pictures to add to the tantalizing earlier ones I've been posting here the last few days.
Night camp
Site 4 Cygnus - City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM
- Verizon cell phone service - fairly good signal - best on west side of the park
- Verizon EVDO service - faster than many places I've camped
- Go to City of Rocks State Park website
- Locate City of Rocks State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
The Heliograph in the Apache Wars
"The mountains and the sun...were made his allies, the eyes of his command, and the carriers of swift messages. By a system of heliograph signals, communications were sent with almost incredible swiftness; in one instance a message traveled seven hundred miles in four hours. The messages, flashed by mirrors from peak to peak of the mountains, disheartened the Indians as they crept stealthily or rode swiftly through the valleys, assuring them that all their arts and craft had not availed to conceal their trails, that troops were pursuing them and others awaiting them. The telescopes of the Signal Corps, who garrisoned the rudely built but impregnable works on the mountains, permitted no movement by day, no cloud of dust even in the valleys below to escape attention. Little wonder that the Indians thought that the powers of the unseen world were confederated against them."