This is my favorite spot!! Almost 10,000 feet - beautiful fir and aspen, a great Forest Service Campground (only $12), and we're sharing it with only the host and one other camper! Hopewell Lake is in the Carson National Forest in a remote area between Taos and Chama. There are no towns anywhere near so there is no light pollution at all! And, we're up high so as you face some directions, the horizon falls off below you - you actually look down to see it. At night the stars were so dazzling. They were just a thick tapestry of light points in black that descended way down through and among the trees, all the way to the horizon below us. Best night sky I've ever seen.
We past a great (crisp, but warm in bed) night, and had a good power hike wheezing up the grades for scarce oxygen but enjoying the beautiful forest glades and panoramas of meadow below.
Finally, a reluctant goodbye as Deb debuted mountain driving in the bus. She did great, bringing us up and over the range, and riding the gears all the way down to the Chama valley below. Lots more pretty driving through Pagosa Springs in Colorado and on to Durango and Bus Stop #7 at Lighner Creek Campground west of town. Elevation 7000 feet.
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