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The Feather and the Cellphone

MY COMPANIONS AND I LABORED THROUGH DEEP SNOW for 15 long minutes—and this after driving through two-foot-deep drifts on the way up to the caldera on a frigid February evening. Now, as we trudged on…

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Monumental Effort

"LET'S GO RIDE SOME DITCHES," Matt Mason says. We pedal through downtown Las Cruces and quickly turn off the pavement onto a dirt path alongside a dry irrigation ditch. For a few minutes I wonder if…

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Trek Back Through Time

IF PEOPLE HAD BEEN THERE TO SEE IT—and there’s a chance Ancestral Acoma or Zuni people were—lava flowing across what’s now El Malpais National Monument might have looked a little like a dark ocean…

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Do The Dunes

Exploring the dunes at White Sands National Park is just part of the fun. There's plenty to do in Alamogordo and Las Cruces as well. Photograph by Tira Howard. CONSIDER MAKING Alamogordo or Las…

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