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On the way up Black Mesa

The trail along the rock wall, with the flat-topped mesa and the open plains below, on the way up Black Mesa in October 2023. At 4,973 feet it's Oklahoma's high point, way out in the panhandle. It was a clear morning, around 52, with almost no wind at that hour.

This is not the summit sign, just the walk up along the pale rock. A few days later I was on Wheeler Peak, about an eight hour drive west.