Los Alamos Heats Up for the Winter
WHEN ERIC SCHALLER GREETS me for a day on the Pajarito Mountain Ski Area slopes, the ski patroller welcomes me to “the land of no-lift mazes.” True to his word, not only do we ski directly up to every…
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WHEN ERIC SCHALLER GREETS me for a day on the Pajarito Mountain Ski Area slopes, the ski patroller welcomes me to “the land of no-lift mazes.” True to his word, not only do we ski directly up to every…
Read MoreAS HE WALKS ALONG A DARK BASALT mesa rimmed with piñon and juniper woodlands, Joseph Brophy Toledo, a member of the Pueblo of Jemez, browses a generous landscape. Juniper berries supply antioxidants…
Read MoreLA MADERA TUCKS INTO A NOOK OF green surrounded by sun-burnished canyons. A few houses perch on gnarled, rocky slopes dotted with dark piñon and juniper trees, but most line the valley floor along the…
Read MoreTHE TRAP WAS SET BEFORE SUNRISE on a crisp, sunny morning in late February. From the helicopter where New Mexico pronghorn biologist Anthony Opatz watched, it resembled wings spread across the…
Read MoreJEAN HEWITT BOUGHT HER HOUSE IN Corona by accident. The longtime Mainer farmed oysters until her perpetually cold toes compelled her to spend one winter in Arizona. Driving back east, she stopped for…
Read MoreA VID MOUNTAIN BIKER JUSTIN SMALL had been leading tours as part of his work at a hotel in Santa Fe and showing his friends and family around trail systems near town for years. Three years ago, he…
Read MoreDIFFICULTY LEVEL: BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE Sugarite Canyon Tour. Ride through oaks and along sunny, pink bluffs before climbing into pine forest in northern New Mexico’s Sugarite Canyon State Park…
Read MoreTHE FIRST SUMMER I OWNED A MOUNTAIN BIKE, the trails at Glorieta Camps almost shut me down. When rocks or a steep pitch spit me off my bike, I stepped into mud that stuck to my shoes and caked on so…
Read MoreI N 1973, CISCO GUEVARA STOOD OUT as a rare New Mexican river runner who knew how to handle the Taos Box, some of the roughest whitewater on the Río Grande. He was hired at Los Rios River Runners…
Read MoreDIFFICULTY LEVEL: BEGINNER Río Chama. Most New Mexico rivers are unpredictable, prone to swinging big in the spring with snowmelt and shrinking to summer trickles that would best float a rubber ducky…
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