Sparkle Mountain
That's not it's real name. But it's not too far from here. We went out for breakfast up the road, went to get the mail down the road, and just fell into play-day. We have not had one since we bought the house. We said, “where does that road go?” and drove up it for only a mile before the turnaround time.
Found another one, said, “Let’s try that.” This one took us up the mountain (not ours, a different, nearby, mountain). We drove and drove. Lots of scrub oak, fall colors, then the trees turned various sorts of pine. Climbing up. We drove through a burned out area (fire about five years ago—so severe that the entire village of Truchas was evacuated) now you can take the leftovers out for firewood. Ironic, huh?
We kept climbing. There were signs pointing to a campground!?! Who knew? We proceeded. I wondered how dangerous the area was as I thought I saw broken glass everywhere—the dirt road was full of it.
NO! We were on (my name) Sparkle mountain! The Truchas Peaks (and obviously this one as well) are completely made up of pre-Cambrian Quartzite. I found rose quartz, white quartz, Mica, mica everywhere in chunks larger than I’ve ever seen...some black, black, fine grained rocks with brilliant little diamond-like sparkles in them.....OMG, this is a place to bring your kids with their favorite fairy-story tucked under arm with a picnic.
The entire mountain glitters. All the rocks under your feet, all the boulders, the very dust you kick up as you walk along the forest dirt road. This is Pecos Wilderness. This is pure magic.
The views from here were astounding, and TRULY!! every single rock, every boulder, every pebble, even the dusty New Mexican dirt sparkled like a pirate’s treasure. I took a couple pix of the view from there, but, duh, none of the rocks. HA! I collected the rocks and I’m going back for more!! I can post up pix of some of the rox I got—hope I can get the glint of the sun. OMG, I want to build the entirety of the walls of my house out of these glitter rocks. Inside and outside. I don't need adobe. I want glitter rocks!
Honestly, it was truly astounding. I’ve never seen anything like it!
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