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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Category: Outdoors
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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New Mexico Ski Directory
Enchanted Forest Cross Country Ski Area Enchanted Forest is New Mexico's largest full-service cross-country ski and snowshoe area featuring a full rental and retail shop, lessons for all ages and…
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Explore New Mexico's Karst Country
HEADING EAST ON I-40, ROLLING HILLS covered in piñon-juniper scrub give way to the grasslands of the southern Great Plains. Other than the big blue sky and an occasional dramatic thunderstorm, the…
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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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A Guide to Ethical Foraging
ROBIN MOORE and Cebastien Rose share some of their Dryland Wilds harvesting guidelines. Know the plants! Be 100 percent sure of what you are harvesting before you eat it. Do a plant sensitivity test…
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Take a Walk in the Wild
TAKE A WALK IN ANY DIRECTION with a couple of skilled foragers, and a weed will never look the same again. Up a mountain trail, down a sandy arroyo, and even in your own backyard, it’s astonishing to…
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Hit The Trails On Horseback
Ghost Ranch, Abiquiú View the spectacular vistas and actual locations of Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings on the back of a horse rented from the stables at the Ghost Ranch Education and Retreat Center…
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