Dripping Springs Trail is an easy to moderate, 3-mile loop trail near Las Cruces, New Mexico. It leads to the ruins of a 19th-century resort and sanatorium. Another trail leads to Hermit's cave, a rock shelter occupied by the Italian hermit Giovanni Maria Agostini in the 1860s. He was murdered in the cave by an unknown assailant around April 17, 1869.

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Love the mountains and mesas 😍

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Giovanni Maria Agostini, the mysterious hermit who sought solitary solace in caves outside of Las Vegas and Las Cruces, after walking the world for decades - https://newmexiconomad.com/the-hermit/

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Photographer 📸 Jake Werth, aka @jake_werth on Instagram - "Another image from that amazing night at the Organ Mountains"

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Sunrise over the #OrganMountains in #LasCruces #NewMexico.

Spent the weekend wandering the Chihuahuan Desert in search of wildflowers.