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Category Archives: Hiking in New Mexico

Photos of the day, March 2, 2014

The weather suggested that I would find drama, and the mountain did not disappoint.  I wrote about it with images that can be made even larger over on the journal pages.

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Photo of the day, February 17, 2014

Today’s photo of the day holds good news and bad news. The good news is that there are flowers about, and that means that it’s getting warm enough to hike in shorts and a t-shirt. The bad news is that it’s warm enough to hike in shorts and a t-shirt because that means that just […]

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Photos of the Day, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014

Earlier in the day my wife and I had hiked through this section of woods and I scared up an Elk but did not have my camera ready.  In the afternoon I went back for another round of hiking and had my camera out and ready in this same stretch of woods.  On my right […]

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Photo of the day Saturday, December 21, 2013

Saturday, after I realized that it would be fruitless to try and get to the top of the mountain, I decided that I could still get a reasonable workout by hiking the connecting trail for a couple of hours.  It’s amazing how much one is slowed down by trying to hike through 3 or 4 […]

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Photos of the day, October 19, 2013

Took the high road to Taos on Saturday and enjoyed some of the fall color before soaking in the hot springs at Oho Caliente. I’m not sure why, but I decided to leave my long lenses and tripod at home.  Who needs long lenses, right? The first snows have started to get the slopes ready […]

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Photos of the day, Saturday 9.22.2013

The mountain has been drenched this summer and especially so these last couple of weeks.  I suspect that it must have rained on it even within the last few days because of all the water pouring off of it today. Flowers are busting out all over the place, especially ones that need lots of water. […]

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Festival in the Mountains

This year fireworks are pretty much banned all around New Mexico, except for the public displays that are put on by various townships and cities.  As we drove into Alamogordo last night we happened to catch a lot of the action since it was set up in the foothills above the city. While hiking the […]

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Photos of the day, May 27, 2013, La Luz Trail

The trifecta of climbs is complete.  Saturday chimney canyon, Sunday TWA, and Monday La Luz. We start with a new to me, a flowering cactus which I believe to be a king cup cactus – which is in the variety known as the hedgehog cactus.  The needles are much farther apart on this than the […]

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Photos of the day, Sunday, May 26, 2013 – Domingo Baca Hike

Day two of my attempt to have a 3 climb weekend I wandered through the TWA canyon to the summit.  Some of the flowers are shown here. Yellow Salsify Wild Rose Finally, my third attempt to photograph this flower is successful.  In the TWA canyon (Domingo Baca) I found this one solitary example of Starry […]

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Photos of the day, Friday May 24, 2013

I used my tram pass to hike the upper trails prior to my big weekend of hiking, did a quick 4 miles and was able to sit and watch the sun set from 10,000 feet. For a bit of interesting perspective, the mountain 5 years ago was covered in fresh snow and I took off […]

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