Breaking Trail in Socorro
INTIMIDATING, SHARP PINK BLUFFS FACE the trailhead, but the path wraps around to follow a sloping ridgeline. Rob Selina brought me here because it’s his favorite hike, and likely for sentimental…
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Tag: City Guides
To the Gila and Beyond
SEE THE GILA WILDERNESS like Aldo Leopold with a guided horseback trek from Joe Saenz, of Wolfhorse Outfitters, or Becky Campbell, of Gila Hot Springs Ranch. Hike to the undeveloped Lightfeather Hot…
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Grounded in Family
INSIDE GROUNDED, a mural of a young woman wearing a brightly flowered hat greets you with a distant gaze, her long braids curling around cacti. Positioned over an inviting green couch, the intriguing…
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Find Southern Comfort in Mesilla
THREE YEARS AGO, JUAN ALBERT AND Claudia Gonzalez were scouting locations for a coffee shop and artisan market when they found an 1850s adobe along Calle de Guadalupe. A half block south of Mesilla…
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Feel at Ho-Ho-Home in Cloudcroft
MY DAUGHTER, WILLA, STANDS ON her tippy-toes, looking west from The Lodge at Cloudcroft’s copper-topped tower. From this 9,000-foot perch, light from the setting sun gets caught in dust over White…
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