Organ Mountain Crest from upper Aguirre Springs Trail – New Mexico Continuing to document my adventures in New Mexico, I will describe a great trip I made into the Organ Mountains of Southern New Mexico. This range is incredible when viewed from the White Sands area in the east and especially from the city of [...]
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Treking off the trail in the Organ Mountains – New Mexico
Thursday, July 14th, 2011A night out in the Wilderness – Capitan Mountain, New Mexico
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011Showy Daisy – Capitan Mountain Wilderness – New Mexico 10 October 2009 – Capitan Mountain Wilderness, New Mexico I was bored one evening in El Paso so I decided that I wanted to go and spend the night out in the mountains. I looked at my maps and determined that the Capitan Mountain Wilderness would [...]
Santa Fe, New Mexico – 400 years of the History of our Nation
Monday, July 11th, 2011Santa Fe, New Mexico I visited Santa Fe, New Mexico once upon a time and took some notes in my journal. Here is the transcript of my visit in the fall of 2009 – Sitting on a bench in the Santa Fe city cathedral park. It is a beautiful place with shady trees, old lamp [...]
City of Rocks State Park – A stargazer’s dream; New Mexico
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011Way out in the middle of nowhere New Mexico is a very interesting little State Park called “City of Rocks”. This State Park is basically a group of impressive stone extrusions that were created 35 million years ago when volcanic ash or “tuff” was fused together. Over the eons these towers and buttresses have [...]
Apache Kid Wilderness, New Mexico – Notes from the journal of my visit
Thursday, January 6th, 2011Aspen reaching for a blue autumn sky – Apache Kid Wilderness APACHE KID WILDERNESS As the first golden rays of sunshine filter through the evergreen forest I am listening to various bird song whistling chirping and the wind rushing through the pines. The air is cool and fresh. Oak leaves are being tossed about in [...]
SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS – NEW MEXICO
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Looking west from the 9,700 foot rim of the Sacramento Mountains “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known” Carl Sagan The Sacramento Mountains rise over 5,000 feet above the horrific wastes of the Chihuahuan desert in southern New Mexico. Down in Alamogordo as you look around you at the miserable desert waste, it is [...]