Hachita Peak
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Las Cruces District BLM (map link) The only thing in the New Mexico bootheel area I can find on AllTrails are a couple routes added by a local (to the state, at least) peak bagger and the bike route for the Continental Divide Trail. Even the "community content" tab is pretty sparse and not useful. Of one, he says there's mining history to pass, but no actual trail. It looked like a nice loop, so I decided to give it a try, give or take. Little Hatchet Mountains Road is an unpaved county road and currently in pretty good shape as far as I took it, right now, discounting the spots where I felt like I was swimming in a bit of sand. I got just past a windmill to the next wash and hit the brake rather than crossing, then found I'd already passed the parking spot I was aiming at. The windmill has parking but is technically on private property (by Caltopo public lands layer), so I parked a little further back at a 4x4 road. It was generally hard to get off the maintain