Top 10 Stories for 2025
AS THE STAFF OF A 104-YEAR-OLD travel magazine in the age of AI, we are proud to be a small group of real people: writers, designers, editors, photographers, and sales professionals. For us, putting…
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Posts From: December 2025
Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Ring in the New Year. Las Cruces Chile Drop In apropos New Mexican style, Las Cruces rings in the new year by dropping a massive 19-foot light-covered chile pepper over the Plaza de Las Cruces. The…
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Editor’s Letter: Photo Ops
I WAS ALREADY in sweats and slippers when my wife, Kathleen, started seeing photos of the northern lights over Santa Fe on social media. “Should we try to see them?” she asked, somewhat unconvinced…
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Datebook: January/February 2026
THE MT. TAYLOR WINTER QUADRATHLON, in Grants, is more than an endurance race—it’s a heart-pounding, quad-burning celebration of winter. The 44-mile course, which gains 5,400 feet in elevation…
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The Persistence of Memory
THE FIRST SUNRISE OF 2025 has yet to warm the buttresses of San Francisco de Asís church in Ranchos de Taos. Several dozen people shiver in its front courtyard. A few wear a hodgepodge of ceremonial…
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New Mexico’s Best Ice Fishing Lakes
Fenton Lake State Park. Great mountain views and sunshine make this Jemez Springs fishing hole a local winter favorite. “It’s special because of its proximity to Albuquerque,” says Mike Ruhl…
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Hooked on Ice Fishing
M ark Montaño grew up fishing in Santa Rosa. But he’d never been ice fishing until an art teaching job lured him to Colorado in 1988. The watercolor artist fell in love with the winter pastime and…
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The 25th Annual Photos of the Year
1 ST PLACE NEW MEXICO EXPERIENCE La Virgen, Angel Lopez “I contacted the Albuquerque Isotopes to attend one of their biggest annual evenings to build my portfolio, and they happily accommodated my…
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Meet the 25th Annual Photo Awards Grand Prize Winner
PHOTOGRAPHY MAY HAVE brought Lauren and Timothy Baca together, but storm chasing is the Moriarty couple’s love language. Lauren grew up in East Texas, where severe weather was always a part of her…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Dance in the culture. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center always offers authentic experiences of Indigeneity through art exhibitions, performances, and cusine from the 19 pueblos in New Mexico…
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