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Monthly Archives: November 2015

Spectacular sunsets and views into Mexico

November 29, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Still in the OPCNM, we’ve enjoyed some great sunsets… There’s also the frisson of excitement of being on the Mexican border – it’s just a couple of miles away, a […]

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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

November 29, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Tucked away in the south west corner of Arizona are a few hundred square miles of desert protected as the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Not surprisingly, it’s chock full […]

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Cochise Stronghold

November 23, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

The Cochise Stronghold is a maze of granite domes and winding canyons covering a hundred square miles or so of south east Arizona. Legend has it that Cochise himself held […]

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Rough and Ready Hills

November 23, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

An unassuming name for an unassuming crag about half an hour West of Las Cruces. …but with a spectacular outlook over the Organ Mountains

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Organ Mountains

November 18, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

After Carlsbad we were chased out of Texas by 60mph winds and a cold front. Dust storms made driving quite harrowing  and the sight of  sheep-sized tumbleweed rolling across an […]

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park

November 17, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Another 50 miles west along the ancient limestone reef that makes Guadeloupe Peak is another natural wonder – hidden from sight over 1,000ft underground. Carlsbad Caverns are internationally famous, but […]

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Guadalupe Peak – the other El Capitan

November 17, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Guadalupe National Park contains the highest point in Texas at about 8,800ft. A pleasant Snowden-sized hike up from the campground. This actually brings you out a few hundred feet above […]

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Hueco Syndrome and Malice in Bucketland

November 13, 2015by Dominic 2 Comments

…just a couple of the fun route names here… What is amazing is that on two of the three days we climbed we were the ONLY roped climbers. Everyone else […]

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Hueco Tanks – Back into Texas

November 13, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Hueco Tanks must rank as one of the most famous climbing areas in the US if not the world. Arguably the best Bouldering on the planet, it also has a […]

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Socorro and The Box

November 13, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Heading south we more or less stumbled upon The Box near Socorro. Another win for the Mountain Project App! With little info we just headed for the sunniest bit of […]

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Socorro and The Box

November 13, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Heading south we more or less stumbled upon The Box near Socorro. Another win for the Mountain Project App! With little info we just headed for the sunniest bit of […]

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Volcanoes and time to head south

November 7, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

We camped half way up the Sandia Crest, hoping  (rather than expecting! ) to climb on one of the impressive crags at its summit. Temperatures around -5C  overnight put paid […]

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Snow in Santa Fe – It’s Breaking Bad

November 7, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

We awoke to a steady fluttering of snow and a half inch dusting of white across the campground and surrounding desert. Snow in the desert? Well Santa Fe is at […]

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Time for a rest day – Culture stop.

November 5, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Impending rain and weary arms coincided for once for a perfectly timed rest day. First on the cultural itinerary was the Los Alamos Bradbury Museum, giving an insight into how […]

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More climbing in the Jemez Mountains

November 5, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

We were so enchanted by our trip to the Jemez Mountains that we had another couple of days there. Only a 30 mins drive from the gorgeous Juniper Campground at […]

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Valles Caldera and Jemez Valley

November 3, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

…This is where all that ash came from – about a million years ago an eruption hundreds of times bigger than Mt St Helens dumped a couple of cubic miles […]

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Bandelier National Monument

November 3, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

… and when it gets a bit chilly to climb the nearby Bandelier National Monument offers the chance to explore ancient ancestral Pueblo dwellings carved from much the same stuff […]

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Los Alamos – White Rock

November 3, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Los Alamos is of course famed as the site of the Manhattan Project to develop the first Atom Bomb. The Los Alamos National Laboratory now dominates the Mesa top with […]

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Texas – Palo Duro Canyon

November 3, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Texas is BIG and of course everything in it is supersized. Just nipping across the panhandle is a couple of hundred miles and there’s very little to break the endless […]

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