Three state high points in 3 days ✅

We got into Black Mesa State Park around 8pm. Got setup in our tents then tried to sleep through the most intense lightening storm I think I’ve ever seen.

We woke up late, around 7am and got a start at the camp store. Most parts of me were sore but the hard stuff was behind us. We scoped out some dinosaur tracks and a dinosaur quarry where we saw a replica of a Apatosaurus femur. From there it was off to Black Mesa, OK.

An easy flat hike up to some switchbacks that put you on top of the mesa. Saw a pronghorn stag watching us from afar. Black Mesa high point is right on the west edge of the OK panhandle. Walking another 1,200’ puts you back into NM on the mesa. We signed the registry, snacked then headed west to the cliff edges and looked out into New Mexico.

There were a biblical amount of locust and I’ve never seen any bigger. Almost stepped on a tarantula on the way back down.

Then drove out further than any civilized person would ever consider to find the tri state marker on the border of CO, NM and OK then drove 50 miles of dirt roads to head back to CO springs. Hop on the plane then back to PA.