The Great Unknown
“[The mountains] stand on the western horizon, above the peppered desert, ice-white and Pleistocene in the morning, a flat blue against the sky’s dull red in the dusk. A high plateau lies at their…
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Category: May 2017
Base Camp: Socorro
Above: The Quebradas Byway promises 30 miles of well-groomed gravel— plus stop-off points for gorgeous hikes. IT'S TIME TO RECONSIDER SOCORRO. Nestled in the Río Grande Valley, near the state’s…
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Commune to Community
Above: Volkswagen vans converge at a 1970 summer solstice celebration. Photography Courtesy Museum Collection of Yogi Bhajan, Siri Singh Sahib of Sikh Dharma WERE IT NOT FOR a melting fan belt and an…
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Go. See. Do. | May 2017
Above: The Liberators perform gunfight reenactments at Rawhide Days. Photography by Connie Loveland Photography BEAR WITH US Smokey never sleeps. For 70 years, he’s educated Americans about the…
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The Wild Heart of the Gila
The foggy wildness of the Gila. THIRTEEN MILES NORTH of Truth or Consequences, exit 89 on Interstate 25 is a lonely, windy place. The landscape is devoid of trees. Elephant Butte Reservoir, the…
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Recipe: Farmers’ Market Strawberry Shortcake
From the Earthly Delights article in the May 2017 issue. Farmers’ Market Strawberry Shortcake Serves 6 For the strawberries 1 pound (3 cups) strawberries 1 tablespoon honey (optional) Take one cup…
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A Force of Nature
Above: Craig Martin, at home in the Jémez Mountains. ON MAY 10, 2000, high winds exploded through a prescribed burn in the Jémez Mountains. For weeks, flames thrashed across Bandelier National…
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