I quickly shouldered the day-pack and carried onward. The entire trail is shown on the Gaia map so I really did not need to do much research. There wasn’t any other vehicle to my surprise, but I did arrive reasonably early. I then followed the Google’s direction to Black Mesa’s trail-head. The next morning I woke up at sunrise and resumed the drive to Clayton where I found the cheapest gas I’ve ever seen in the past few months. I was simply too spent to drive farther, so pulled over and slept in the car. In the evening I drove eastwards towards Clayton near the triple point among New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas but I failed to get there. I quickly realized that I was not far from these flatland states after all. I could have used the last day to get another P1000m objective but I wanted something different. I made a spontaneous decision to use the last day of my spring break road-trip to visit the state high points of Oklahoma and Kansas as I was mentally done from the prominence peak-bagging in New Mexico. This is a very popular hike though due to the status of being the state’s high point so on any given day one would expect the meet people. The high point in Oklahoma has prominence of “zero” meaning it’s not a peak at all, but to reach this high point one has to hike about 13.5 km round trip with a few hundred meters of elevation gain. This state high point locates in the far NW corner of the “panhandle” near the triple point among Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico and is just part of the plateau of Black Mesa that extends into New Mexico. The state of Oklahoma is known for anything but mountains so it feels strange to talk about the highest “peak” of this state.
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