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Author
Jim O'Donnell

Writer and photographer Jim O'Donnell is the author of Notes for the Aurora Society: 1,500 Miles on Foot Across Finland (Infinity Publishing, 2010) and Fountain Creek: Big Lessons from a Little River (Torrey House Press, 2024). Find him at aroundtheworldineightyyears.com.

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks Reopens

“THE STRANGE FORMATIONS of rock, sculpted by time and elements, rise like sentinels over the land, whispering the secrets of ages past,” wrote 19th-century Swiss archaeologist Adolph Bandelier about…

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2024 True Heroes: Michael McCann

ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO, three Taos teenagers tragically jumped from the Río Grande Gorge Bridge over the course of just a few weeks. While youth suicide in Taos is all too common, the deaths left Michael…

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Written in the Trees

THE EYE FOLLOWED ME. As I bent around the aspen for a better look at the symbol carved into its trunk, a gray pupil seemed to track me. A wind stirred in the forest crown. In the dappled light, I…

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Fly the Friendly New Mexico Skies

CHRIS DAHL-BREDINE CHASES THE LIGHT. “I’m moved by sunrises and sunsets,” he says. “There’s nothing quite like the beautiful New Mexico light, and I just want to be right there in it.” Flying high in…

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Elevate Your Birding Game

A SWAINSON’S HAWK LIFTED FROM THE CANYON rim and dropped below my own perch, 1,000 feet above the Canadian River. A light breeze hissed over the grasses. The hawk caught the wind, turned into a…

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Meet Expert Hiker Cindy Brown

I N HER EARLIEST MEMORY , Cindy Brown was on a trail. “My parents took our family out hiking, camping, fishing, and boating,” she says. “I always loved being outside. Anyone looking for me could find me…

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