Try These Dome Sweet Domes
SANTA FE SUPER DOME, SANTA FE A single-room dome perches on the rim of burnished red hills, just south of Santa Fe, in a sun-soaked basin rimmed by blue peaks. “Being a part of the landscape is why…
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The Ultimate Glamping Experience
DAWN BEGINS AS A DEEP BLUE lifts the darkness just off the edge of the dome’s view at El Místico Ranch. Then gold and pink spill across the sky, bright on the rocky bands of Carrizo Peak and wispy…
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Moving Forward
DUSTIN BERG GREW UP HIKING, HUNTING, CAMPING, AND SKIING throughout New Mexico. After a 2003 motorcycle accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, everything in his life changed—except for his…
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Get Your Ski On, the Nordic Way
CROSS-COUNTRY SKIERS HEW TO TWO STYLES. Classic skiing looks much like walking on skis: Stride forward and then glide along tracks cut through the snow. Skate skiers push off their skis’ edges in a…
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A New Home in New Mexico's Ski Scene
LAURA SPECTOR COMPETED at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics in biathlon, which requires skate skiing then shooting targets with a .22-caliber rifle. Now settling into life in Los Alamos, Spector…
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A Perfect Storm
ON THE MORNING AFTER A DECEMBER 15, 2021, WINDSTORM, Enchanted Forest Cross Country Ski Area co-owners Ellen Miller Goins and Geoff Goins decided to hike up Powderpuff, one of the trails climbing away…
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Carving New Paths for Adventure
ON A SUMMER AFTERNOON IN 2021, Peter Olson guided me out to some of the newest trail loops in the Galisteo Basin Preserve. But we had to walk before we could really ride. After briefly pedaling down a…
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Ruidoso Raises Its Game
A FISHERMAN STANDS ON Grindstone Lake’s shore, casting lines into the blue-green water as I hike under ponderosa pines and through Gambel oak on a trail ringing the lake. It’s an early spring…
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How Acoma Blue Corn Thrived Again
AARON LOWDEN HELD TWO POUNDS OF DARK BLUE SEEDS and felt in them the weight of everything he had inherited from his Acoma Pueblo ancestors—and everything he hoped to secure for his community’s future…
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Chama Goes Full Steam Ahead
FROM WHERE WE STAND in a grassy basin, brush conceals the herd of cattle, but when the Trout Stalker Ranch manager calls them with a trilling prrr, cows moo back. The herd plods down the slope and…
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