Spectacular sunsets and views into Mexico
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
An unassuming name for an unassuming crag about half an hour West of Las Cruces. …but with a spectacular outlook over the Organ Mountains
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
…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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
…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 […]
… 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]