| After Sierra Blanca and Lookout Mountian, I headed sotuh over to Chaves County. Had a really hard time figuring out the location description was referring to as the start of the hike. I might have been due to the fact that the Sunflower Canyon sign was face-down in the brush, which I turned back over: Fallen sign. The rest was trivial after locating the starting point. On the right, the "One Tree" is seen at the mouth of the canyon. This is a fairly good indicator of being on the right track. It was rather hot by now, which was 1:00 pm. I followed the canyon up, at times buswhacking near the beginning of the steepening west slope.
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