For anyone who is interested on where I was located... open up google maps click on layers to see in Sat view, copy and paste these coordinates in the search function just as they appear:
35.488513, -105.424899
If you zoom in a bit on my location, you will see a clearing. My tent was to the right of that under the trees (this sat image was obviously taken after I left) You can see the old logging road that follows in a north direction from the clearing and meets with a forest road close to the fork. if you zoom out a little and follow that fork to the right you will see a whiteish outcrop. This is the old Priest Mine, which was a mica mine from the early 1900's. It's a pegmatite dike. The mica was mined for electronics. Mica is an insulating material that does not conduct electricity, it provides advanced electrical insulation between electric circuit lines and was, and is widely used as a material in wiring boards and as the basis for electronic components. The interesting part is, they employed 8- and 9-year-old girls to separate the mica books because their fingers were so small they could do what no grown persons fingers could do. Which is one of the reasons the mine closed lol.
If you follow the forest road from the fork and go south, you will eventually come to the crazy bitches place who lives here. The red arrow is where they put the gate/chain up.
Road closure causes dispute in northern NM - https://www.abqjournal.com/1328954/road-closure-causes-dispute-in-northern-nm-ex-both-sides-refer-to-the-area-as-the-wild-wild-west.html
Legal battle over public access to private road looms - https://www.abqjournal.com/1354886/legal-battle-over-public-access-to-private-road-looms-ex-landowners-county-commission-appear-to-be-at-an-impasse.html
It appears they didn't do a follow up story because eventually the locals raised hell and the county had an emergency meeting to designate B55 a county road all the way up to the national forest. Prior to that it ended several hundred yards south of her property, which is why she felt it was ok to claim the road as off limits between there and the national forest. End the end the county told her to stick her chain where the sun don't shine and that was that. The articles don't really show what raving bitch she really was. She lied in the article. there were some people that dumped a little stuff about 10 years ago, but it's not an ongoing problem.
The Sat image is deceptive. It doesn't look like much, but that terrain between her place and mine was pretty steep, rocky and messy in places. It would take me a good hour in 4wd to go between my camp and where her place is.
If you click off of layers back to normal view you can see how far I was into the National Forest in green
