Pronghorn Find New Homes in New Mexico
THE 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…
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Life’s a Breeze in Corona
JEAN 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…
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Take a Spin with Justin Small
A 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…
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Fall Head over Wheels for These Trails
DIFFICULTY 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…
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Get a Taste of the Chips & Salsa Trail
THE 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…
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Rafting Through New Mexico's History
I 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…
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Our Rivers Have Rapid Rewards
DIFFICULTY 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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Go With the River Flow
OVER THE COURSE OF FIVE DAYS, we rode the edge of springtime. An intrepid friend and I launched our packrafts— single-passenger inflatable boats—into the Gila River on a rocky riverbank with bare tree…
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Get to Know Carlsbad Caverns Wildlife
Illustrations by Chris Philpot. CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK’S MOST FAMOUS RESIDENTS are its Brazilian free-tailed bats, but they’re just one of more than 67 mammals and 368 bird species that live…
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The History of Carlsbad Caverns
AN APACHE STORY TELLS OF A MEDICINE MAN who ventured into the caverns and was never seen again. Every year, tribal members would visit the cave around the anniversary of his disappearance and leave…
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