Editor’s Letter: Snow Ready
EVERY YEAR WHEN WINTER rolls around, I feel a pang that’s like a sharp chill in the air. Growing up in Ohio, I played all kinds of sports, but I somehow never learned how to ski—not that there weren’t…
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Category: Outdoors
Snow Much Tubing Fun
ALL THE SIGNS OF A GOOD TIME are here: Smiles on faces rosy from the cold. Laughter drifting from around glowing firepits. Delighted squeals echoing off white alpine slopes. Bundled children waddling…
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Where to Go Snow Tubing
THE BUNNY HILL at Red River Ski and Summer Area opens to winter tubing after hours. That means the fun doesn’t stop when the lifts close. “It’s a really short hill, but people still have fun,” says…
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A New Mexico Ski Story
E DWARD HERRERA STARTED TEACHING at Sipapu Ski and Summer Resort as a fifth grader, mostly shadowing his ski instructor dad in exchange for a free season pass. After about 12 years, he chased career…
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Set Your Sights on Snow
LAST NOVEMBER, winter seemed to come roaring in, with so much snow dumped in a single week that several ski resorts sprang into action and opened early, including Pajarito, Sandia, Sipapu, and Ski…
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Hunting the Crown Prince of the Plains
ON MY THIRD and last day of hunting for pronghorn on the plains of northeastern New Mexico, I press five 168-grain cartridges into the magazine, click it into the action, and sling the .308 Mauser…
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Hike Santa Fe to Taos
“THIS LAND LENDS DEPTH TO MY LIFE,” says Pam Neely, author of The Santa Fe to Taos Thru-Hike Guidebook. “It’s utterly gorgeous in the high country.” The Santa Fe–based writer feels most at home in New…
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Meet the Pack at Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary
ABOUT 15 MINUTES into a walk around North America’s largest canid sanctuary, the wolves and wolfdogs begin a low, collective singing. The pack howl thrums with wildness, churning out hypnotic minor…
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Lizard Love in New Mexico
AS A BOY, Tom McCain could hop over the backyard wall of his home near Eubank and Menaul boulevards to explore what was then Albuquerque’s northeastern frontier. He looked for horned lizards and…
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Where Wildlife Finds Refuge
BITTER LAKE, ROSWELL Where the Chihuahuan Desert meets the high plains and Pecos River, a surprising oasis teems with life. Across 25,000 ecologically diverse acres, Bitter Lake draws 357 migratory…
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