Description
The Skyline Trail #251 is the longest trail in the Pecos (and I'd reckon the entire NM Sangres too.) This elegant, but sometimes rugged and slightly overgrown, point to point trail runs along the ridgecrest for roughly 70 miles from near Barillas Peak east of the town of Pecos, NM making a giant horseshoe bend around the Pecos river valley to just beyond the summit of "Deception Peak" at the Santa Fe Ski Basin. The trail does not travel over the summit of the major peaks of New Mexico's Sangres and, instead, passes by numerous high alpine lakes at the base of the high peaks.