With just a little smoke! That’s coming in from the west (left) and barely visible in this shot, but later it would completely obscure the view. I don’t even know which forest was burning. Take your pick in the Southwest this summer. The truth is that fire is natural to these places. Lightning sets it [...]
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It’s a dirty job but someone has to do it
You can hike up to the top of this thing at 12,115 ft. In fact, there’s a trail up there that follows the ridgeline to high above the Taos Ski Valley. If you start in San Cristobal, you can hike in the wilderness for days. This is obviously something I need to do before I [...]
Sunlight and mountains and blue sky and dust
The thing jumped down from coincidence and jerked a rope around my neck: “Uukkghhh…” I think I said, or something like it. Remembering the lovely green life o’ me pasts (leaving out poison ivy, multiflora, deer flies, and sweat), I cursed the day I ever set out for the moon! An old tale with me, [...]
More telephoto goodness shot not 200 yards from where I fall over the obvious
Why can’t I do it? Oh, but I can. JUST LOOK AT THAT! For now I leave you with the mountain and the spoken introduction to a song I just discovered, “Jesus Built My Hotrod,” by Ministry. I wish I could play it for you here. (I found it on Spotify.) Great throbbing bass thrash [...]
That had better be Kachina Peak (I’ll be awfully upset if it isn’t)
Yes, another mountain. What the hell can I do, the things are everywhere. By the way, that’s half of Taos Mountain on the right. This is of course another telephoto shot from Taos Valley Overlook, taken about three days ago. I was due to go hike yesterday, but it was snowing, and I had to [...]
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