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Ski Areas Face Climate Change

March 5, 2019 by baRb@55

Change often seems a slow thing in the southern Rockies. Take, for example, our reverence for the ancient community of Taos Pueblo, which has seemingly stood still (its inner core remains unchanged) for a thousand years, making it the oldest continually inhabited community in the country. Truly, adaptation is survival. On the other hand, time Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New!, Ski Stories, Southern Colorado

Here There Be Monsters

March 5, 2019 by baRb@55

Twilight. The sky has begun to softly bruise plum and lavender, with hints of rose. You are walking along the rock-encrusted rim of a gorge, peering down into the yawning abyss which speaks the vocabulary of prehistory. The weatherman talked about possible snow, and you can feel the teeth of winter on your skin as Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories, New!, Southern Colorado

Ski Country 2019

December 17, 2018 by baRb@55

Filed Under: Ezines

2018 Angel Fire Parade of Homes

August 8, 2018 by baRb@55

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High Country 2018

June 8, 2018 by baRb@55

Filed Under: Ezines

Revolts and revolutions thrive on rebels

May 7, 2018 by baRb@55

A riot, revolt or revolution never remains complete without a rebel(s) to fuel the situation. These controversial leaders usually maintained an unsavory reputation as “troublemakers” at the time of their escapades. In time, northern New Mexico and southern Colorado history sometimes changes this viewpoint, honoring the leader through public memorialization. The reason for the rebellion, Read More

Filed Under: Local History, New Mexico Stories, New!, Southern Colorado

Mountain Memories

May 7, 2018 by baRb@55

In charting a course for a future Memory Lane – paved with images, impressions, and travel-tread keepsakes – we offer you a gilded inventory, what you might call “the Blueprint Special,” which runs the recreational gamut in northern New Mexico and the southern Rockies. Switching Gears Your personal scrapbook may include a snapshot of you Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, New!, Southern Colorado

From dreams to dust: NM Ghost Towns

February 22, 2018 by baRb@55

  …who of us has never felt while walking through twilight or writing a date from his past, that something infinite had been lost? — Jorge Luis Borges In Portugese there is a phrase, saudade, which speaks to a deep and profound sense of loss and nostalgia in regards to someone or some thing that Read More

Filed Under: Local History, New Mexico Stories, New!

Do it like a kid

February 22, 2018 by baRb@55

Wouldn’t it be great if we could all have as much fun as kids do when we go outside? They’re like otters — not thinking too hard, just messing around and having fun. That’s not to say that they have no fear. But saying that adults have forgotten how to play is as silly as Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, New!, Ski Stories, Southern Colorado

SkiCountry 2018

December 27, 2017 by baRb@55

Filed Under: Ezines

HighCountry 2017

May 29, 2017 by baRb@55

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories, Our Towns, Southern Colorado, Wildlife

Kids bummin’ around on bikes

May 3, 2017 by baRb@55

In this issue of HighCountry, we explore a few of the more off-the-beaten-path places to bum around. Cool thing about bummin’ around is you never know what you’ll run into. Kids know this much better than older folks. They understand bummin’ around on foot is one thing; but on bikes – one of the best Read More

Filed Under: 10 Ways To Welcome You, Humor, Life in the Southern Rockies, New Mexico Stories

Ice fishing, Eagle Nest Lake

May 3, 2017 by baRb@55

Mid-May and it is snowing, again. We’ve had plenty of warm weather – ski slopes are closed, aspens are beginning to bud at the branch tips, creeks are swollen with runoff – but winter is slow to let go. But you know it will, and you can see it on the face of Eagle Nest Read More

Filed Under: 10 Ways To Welcome You, Humor, Life in the Southern Rockies, New Mexico Stories, Our Towns

Tooling Around for Local Foods

May 3, 2017 by baRb@55

There are lots of exciting things to do on a cool summer morning in the High Country – fishing, hiking, biking, horseback riding, sight-seeing – but if you’re looking for something different and wondering where all the locals have gone, check out the local Farmers Markets; you can find a market somewhere along the Sangre Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories, Our Towns

Riders In The Sky

May 3, 2017 by baRb@55

Summer. Just the word makes spirits soar. Later, it’s back to the daily grind, but in the meantime, I figure a change of attitude (and altitude) might do a body good. Who knows? Fresh perspectives can change things forever. When I got the chance to take a hot air balloon ride (always on my bucket Read More

Filed Under: Humor, Life in the Southern Rockies, New Mexico Stories, Our Towns

Wild Horsepower

May 3, 2017 by baRb@55

STRAIGHT FROM the HORSE’S MOUTH: There is no shortage of myths, superstitions, and fun obscure facts when it comes to horses. From the vaults of equestrian trivia: The first historically recorded horse race—between fool’s golden boy Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (see: Chasing El Dorado) and one of his soldiers, Rodrigo de Maldonado — took place Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories, Southern Colorado, Wildlife

The Wild Ones

May 3, 2017 by baRb@55

Seeing wildlife is like seeing celebrities, only better. – Tania Andrews Fun Wildlife Factoids: New Mexico’s state bird is the roadrunner; Colorado’s is the lark bunting. Roadrunners can fly, though they spend most of their time on the ground. The golden eagle is North America’s largest bird of prey. The American Bison is the largest Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Southern Colorado, Wildlife

Pueblo Indian Pottery – A Polished Art

May 3, 2017 by baRb@55

San Ildefonso Pueblo, north of Santa Fe off Highway 502, stands in quiet simplicity beside the Rio Grande at the foot of stately Black Mesa as it has since 1300 A.D. The natives of this pueblo migrated from the Mesa Verde area to the rugged and beautiful canyon of Bandelier on the mesa above Los Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Arts, New Mexico Stories

Farmington Vacation Guide 2017

December 14, 2016 by baRb@55

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SkiCountry 2017

December 14, 2016 by baRb@55

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Angel Fire Visitor Guide 2017

November 10, 2016 by baRb@55

Filed Under: Ezines

The Hunt For Buried Treasure

August 16, 2016 by baRb@55

My writer friend Phaedra says we have to go out and look for Forrest Fenn’s treasure, or how can I write about it? “No waaaay,” I say. The truth is I’m quite good at getting lost, and treasure hunting would only exacerbate my basic condition. I don’t admit to her that just the day before Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories, Our Towns

Rooms With A View – Bandelier

August 16, 2016 by baRb@55

Take a hike with the ancient cliff dwellers of Bandelier National Monument’s Canyon de los Frijoles Sometimes I forget why we take these little cruises. The ones where you call a friend, throw a couple of cans of beans and a sleeping bag in the back of the truck and just leave. Just close the Read More

Filed Under: Local History, New Mexico Stories, Our Towns

Riders In The Sky

August 8, 2016 by baRb@55

Summer. Just the word makes spirits soar. Later, it’s back to the daily grind, but in the meantime, I figure a change of attitude (and altitude) might do a body good. Who knows? Fresh perspectives can change things forever. When I got the chance to take a hot air balloon ride (always on my bucket Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies

Wild Horsepower

August 8, 2016 by baRb@55

  They have become symbolic extensions of the Southwestern landscape, four-legged representatives of grace, thunder, freedom, and majesty. Horses of varying breeds have starred as romantic icons in the Wild West chapter of the American saga, and without them the fierce and independent spirit of Frontier-Tough, U.S.A, would have been an altogether different story. Yet Read More

Filed Under: Local History, New Mexico Stories

Santa Fe Through the Eyes of a Native

July 13, 2016 by baRb@55

Legends, lovers and lawyers spike stories of Old Santa Fe – Visitors get more than points of interest when Ramona Argueta Allocca conducts a walking tour of Santa Fe. She spices everything with facts about food, music, dance, famous fandangos and Spanish folklore. Walking along the river, she’ll tell stories of La Llorona (the wailing Read More

Filed Under: Local History, New Mexico Stories, Our Towns

The Art of Falling

July 13, 2016 by baRb@55

The snow gives us a glide And the slope, a slide. In winter, the mountains of northern New Mexico are not just so much pretty scenery, white handmaidens who serve as decoration. Some people find them seductive. I like to think of them as fierce goddesses who will rip you out of your car even Read More

Filed Under: New Mexico Stories, Ski Stories, Southern Colorado

Introduction to Victor Westphall

July 13, 2016 by baRb@55

As a young boy, Victor slept some nights under the cover of a buffalo robe on the porch of his grandmother’s house.  There, under the darkness of the robe, he read a boyhood book of adventure with a small light. An icy Midwest wind ran across the fields at his farm blowing dirt and cold Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories, Projects

HighCountry 2016

May 27, 2016 by baRb@55

Filed Under: Ezines

“Rut 66” & New Mexico roads

May 13, 2016 by baRb@55

The Southwest summer sky. A thing of beauty – smashing sunrise, searing midday sun, orange twilight, peaceful nights. Just one of the things people flock to New Mexico for. Sure, there’s the landscape – mountains and mesas, gorges and rivers – food, art, music, festivals, history, adventure. All great stuff we’re famous for, but you Read More

Filed Under: 10 Ways To Welcome You, Humor, Life in the Southern Rockies

Snowboarding: An American Tale

May 13, 2016 by baRb@55

During the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, America once again dominated snowboarding, bringing home five medals. Shawn White’s epic gold medal halfpipe victory run, and Seth Westcott’s come-from-behind gold in the snowboard cross helped define US snowboarding. Snowboarding is as American as apple pie, classic cars and Facebook, with its roots founded as much Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories, Ski Stories

The flow of the river, the lay of the land

May 13, 2016 by baRb@55

A Red River watershed tour – The Red River tells a compelling story. A few million years or so ago, before the earth moved, the Red River was not a tributary but the source of the Rio Grande. Now, however, the Red feeds the Rio Grande as it makes its way to the Gulf of Mexico Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories

Something’s Wild

May 13, 2016 by baRb@55

Searching for the elusive New Mexicans in the southern Rockies – Wild Mustangs. Pure heart and defiant soul of the old Wild West. Their name evokes images of the rearing stallion, wild-eyed and cunning, mane ragged as the desert wind. Even John Wayne needed all his gumption and a tall horse to capture one. Clark Gable Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories

Fat Boys Dig Cats – Extreme Skiing Monarch Style

May 13, 2016 by baRb@55

Monarch’s extreme snowcat tours of Colorado’s Great Divide are heaven for snow carnivores –  Above me on the mountain steeps, I could hear the guides call to each other as they swept through the trees making sure there were no stragglers. “Clear… Clear.” Clear, my butt. I’m upside down in this hole, wedged between a Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, New Mexico Stories, Ski Stories, Southern Colorado, Uncategorized

Tales From The Tailwaters

May 12, 2016 by baRb@55

I was not a good example of grace under pressure. – With six people in my waterlogged raft, which was pinned against a giant rock, it was more like driving a tank without steering. The roar of water was real. It was not a bad dream, where later you realize: It was not real and it Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories

Tiwa… Keeping Language Alive –

May 12, 2016 by baRb@55

Tiwa is not a written language – and out of respect, many speakers don’t wish to provide written translations. Other traditions may differ from that of Taos Pueblo, which speaks northern Tiwa, as does Picuris The white stuff falling softly from the sky is the world’s most beautiful sight, no matter what you call it. “Nieve” I recall, in Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Arts, New Mexico Stories

Oh, When The Saints –

May 12, 2016 by baRb@55

Carving a place in history – Whether celebrating the beneficence of San Francisco (St. Francis), petitioning San Ysidro for rain during a drought (St. Isidore), or honoring the virtues of Guadalupe, saints have been and remain an essential part of the spiritual and cultural fabric of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. When Spanish settlers Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Arts, New Mexico Stories

Durango Ski Town –

May 12, 2016 by baRb@55

Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort is located in the rugged San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado, and 25 miles north of historic downtown Durango. Averaging 260 inches of snow annually, Purgatory is known for consistent, dry powder from frequent storms, which are followed by sunny, bluebird days, creating perfect conditions for pure alpine nirvana. Purgatory Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Ski Stories, Southern Colorado

Disney shoots Lone Ranger –

May 12, 2016 by baRb@55

Our fascination with movies begins when we are young, and for most never completely disappears. They transport us, they awe us, they inspire us and they linger somewhere in our subconscious, much after the final credits have faded. With the dramatic landscapes and seemingly unending abundance of light and sky, filmmakers have flocked to New Read More

Filed Under: Film, Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Arts, New Mexico Stories, Uncategorized

Hot Springs & Cold Spots: Taking the Waters

May 12, 2016 by baRb@55

Who doesn’t long for water? – Especially the essential luxury of hot water on a cold winter’s day, with snowflakes falling on your face while you soak in an outdoor 103.5-degree pool (my personal favorite temperature). But since I’m a Methodist/hedonist, I prefer to earn my comforts first. Here is my perfect fantasy day: First Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, New Mexico Stories, Our Towns, Southern Colorado

Southwest’s largest ski operator adds more mountains

May 12, 2016 by baRb@55

Purgatory at Durango Mountain, Arizona Snow Bowl, Sipapu Resort and Pajarito Resort – Sipapu managing partner James Coleman adds Pajarito, Durango Mountain Resort, and Arizona Snow Bowl to the fold, forming the largest ski mountain collective in the Southwest. After nearly 15 years as the managing partner at Sipapu (near Taos, NM), Coleman understands how to Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, New Mexico Stories, Ski Stories, Southern Colorado

March 25, 2016 by baRb@55

For the past 20 years we’ve worked with a diverse range of clients on a wide range of projects. Focusing on print and online projects, we have tackled topics as diverse as ecotourism, statewide charter schools, towns, chambers, visitor centers, various festivals, Native American tribes, national and global sports associations, historical associations, resorts and ranches, Read More

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Filed Under: Projects

Angel Fire Visitor Guide

March 25, 2016 by baRb@55

Angel Fire Visitor Guide is the primary response piece for the Village of Angel Fire, New Mexico, containing comprehensive visitor and relocation information guide covering Angel Fire and the greater Moreno Valley. Offered in print and online versions, with option for DVD standalone version.

Filed Under: Projects

Storms

February 18, 2016 by baRb@55

We all love to tell stories of monster storms. – There was a child who was picked up by a tornado, whirled about and then returned to earth. He ran to his grandma, with dirt up his nose, in his eyes. You can bet he had a changed perspective. And you know the saying about how Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, New Mexico Stories

Caballeros, ciboleros & wild buckaroos

February 15, 2016 by baRb@55

Arnold Sturdy rode into Miami, NM, in 1912 on a little grey. Every time he told the story his left hand would go up instinctively to his waist, as if he were still holding the reins. Of a Saturday he and his buddy Kennedy would catch them a couple of green ‘uns, unbroken horses, hop Read More

Filed Under: Local History

The Pacing Black Stallion of Antelope Springs

February 12, 2016 by baRb@55

Range historian J. Frank Dobie had a great affinity for horses, especially the wild horses or mustangs that roamed the American Great Plains. Among the stories he collected in his celebrated book, “The Mustangs,” were those devoted to the courage, endurance and beauty of several white stallions and their heroic efforts in avoiding capture by Read More

Filed Under: Local History, New Mexico Stories

Rio Grande… An American Classic

February 10, 2016 by baRb@55

Hope Springs Eternal It was one of those culture-shock moments where urban East meets rugged West. Several of my friends and my sister, all who had come from Brooklyn to Taos to attend my wedding, found themselves hiking a rocky trail down into the night-darkened depths of the gorge. My friend, Paul, a “regular” at Read More

Filed Under: Local History, New Mexico Stories

World’s Fastest Indian – Ross Anderson, Speed Skier

February 10, 2016 by baRb@55

Sherman Alexie may not have been thinking of Ross Anderson when he wrote the novel The World’s Fastest Indian,  but the de facto world’s fastest Indian is a truth stranger than fiction. At his Taos condo, Ross Anderson, the Cheyenne/Arapaho, Mescalero Apache with a Swedish last name is not what you’d expect, especially from the very Europeanized world Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Ski Stories

National Wellness Center – Healing PTSD Veterans

February 5, 2016 by baRb@55

An American Veteran and his spouse stand at the bottom of a Native American healing ceremony circle laid out on a gym floor in Angel Fire. Their hands are covered in red mud, a symbol of trauma. They each walk halfway around a separate side of the circle, then toward David Singing Bear, a Native Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, New Mexico Stories

Silver City and The Gila

February 5, 2016 by baRb@55

Welcome to “The Gateway of the Gila.” Silver City, embraced by the Continental Divide and the foothills of the 3.3 million acre Gila National Forest, rests at 6,000’ elevation, with mild temperatures, low humidity (13-30% average except during the summer monsoon season), 360 days of sunshine and 4 gentle seasons (snow usually melts by 10 Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies

Desert Oak

February 5, 2016 by baRb@55

“Estas en tu casa.” “Mi casa es tu casa.” It’s easy to accept one of these traditional Spanish greetings at Desert Oak, a private vacation home: “Make yourself at home” and “My house is your house.” The state’s Hispanic roots reach deep into the ground here in Northern New Mexico, which means among other things Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History

A Mountain Railroad

February 5, 2016 by baRb@55

Life is like a mountain railroad, / with an engineer that’s brave: / We must make the run successful, / from the cradle to the grave; / Watch the curves, the fills, the tunnels; / never falter, never quail; / Keep your hand upon the throttle, / and your eye upon the rail. –  In Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories

On Shovel Racing

February 3, 2016 by baRb@55

It was February of 1984, having arrived in Moreno Valley, just four months earlier. Hired initially to run the retail operations at the ski area, my rental shop staff asked if they could work through the night into the wee hours on Sunday morning. With the help of our pilot and current Angel Fire Ski Read More

Filed Under: Ski Stories

Ski Country 2016

January 7, 2016 by baRb@55

Filed Under: Ezines

Higher Ground

December 14, 2015 by baRb@55

Training at altitude in northern NM | Wheeler Peak lies majestically in the middle of the Enchanted Circle at a dizzying elevation of 13,161 feet, the highest point in New Mexico. Each summer many who summit complain they experience shortness of breath as they approach the top. This is because there really is less oxygen at Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies

Route 66 to Taos – Poet Ronald Chavez

December 14, 2015 by baRb@55

Natural debe ser / Listo para ser alma dulce / Listo para ser humanaterio y atento / Fundado / Solamente en aquel / Mistico mundo ingravido / Donde lo mas grande posible / Se decubri en abundar* — from Fuera de Oscura Roads sometimes lead where you least expect them to. Even if on a Read More

Filed Under: Local History, New Mexico Arts, New Mexico Stories

Tale-spinning in the high desert

December 10, 2015 by baRb@55

In the beginning was the word “Who is the storyteller? Of whom is the story told? What is there in the darkness to imagine into being? What is there to dream and to relate? What happens when I or anyone exerts the force of language upon the unknown? … If there is any absolute assumption Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Arts, New Mexico Stories, Southern Colorado

Name that run

December 10, 2015 by baRb@55

Most of us stand atop ski runs such as Niños Heroes (one of the first few double blacks of the ridge in Taos Ski Valley) and think to ourselves – “How do I drop in and not die?” But there are those few, possibly feeling the effects of oxygen deprivation, who think to themselves – Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, New Mexico Stories, Our Towns, Ski Stories

Randy Travis’s Love Affair

December 10, 2015 by baRb@55

This guy loves sopaipillas, Santa Fe and the Southwest –  Northern New Mexico is home to dozens of celebrities who have made names for themselves in music, movies, TV and the arts. Maybe it’s the gorgeous scenery and space for privacy that attracts famous people, who are free to let their hair down here. One Read More

Filed Under: Film, Life in the Southern Rockies, New Mexico Stories

Women with an angle

December 10, 2015 by baRb@55

As many anglers have discovered, fly-fishing is a socially well-regarded pretext for grownups to play in the water. While images of the sport are still male-dominated, large numbers of women are discovering the joys of tempting fish with flies and showing up on calendars and magazine covers. Of course that isn’t much of a reason Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies

Mountain Remedies

December 7, 2015 by baRb@55

“Señor San Juan…started back when he saw me, lifted up his hands with a stare of terror and surprise, and uttered the ejaculation, Adios! In two minutes, he had half a bushel of onions in the ashes, and as soon as they were roasted, he swathed my feet up with a parcel of them. I Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Arts, New Mexico Stories

Heart of the Pueblo

December 7, 2015 by baRb@55

The little river with the big history. Visitors to the Taos area readily find their way to the area highlights – Taos plaza, the much-photographed St. Francis de Asis Church at Ranchos de Taos, the breathtaking Rio Grande Gorge, and the Pueblo. These markers offer newcomers a glimpse of the ancient history of the Taos Read More

Filed Under: Local History, New Mexico Stories

Under the Command of 1st Lieut. Geo M. Wheeler

December 4, 2015 by baRb@55

If a man can be king of all he surveys, the lieutenant was king of the West.      Presiding over northern New Mexico’s Enchanted Circle is Wheeler Peak, the tallest mountain in the state. For years it went unnamed, even by the surveyors, and Truchas Peak, just north of Santa Fe, was thought to Read More

Filed Under: Local History

Acequias and the Art of Shovel-Leaning

November 30, 2015 by baRb@55

  On a sweet April morning, I went out to clean a ditch. I don’t irrigate, or live on a ditch, since I live in Taos proper, but my friend Phaedea has one. Or rather, she’s on one – the Acequia Atalaya, through which the waters of the Rio Hondo flow. Tradition still rules in Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories

The Heat Is On

November 6, 2015 by baRb@55

Welcome to El Norte where flavor is measured in BTUs A lad from Cimarron joined the submarine service to see the world from underwater. He was submerged for 90 days at a time. Day after day of whale sounds, creaking bulkheads, silent running. No sunshine except through the periscope. He is fond of saying the Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories

Ridin’ The Range

October 14, 2015 by baRb@55

…a special section dedicated to the once and future riders of New Mexico’s wild and woolly Southwest   Wild, dry, rugged country, criss-crossed by ancient trade routes, where buffalo used to run in herds that stretched to the horizon. Comanches and Apaches sped across it like the wind. And the volcanic soil was so rich Read More

Filed Under: New Mexico Stories

Black Jack’s Gang

October 14, 2015 by baRb@55

The story of a cowboy gone wrong                                                                 Along the walkway leading to the museum at Philmont Scout Ranch sits a large boulder with Read More

Filed Under: Local History

When in doubt, go higher

October 9, 2015 by baRb@55

“When in doubt, go higher.” That’s my favorite cliché. And Taos Ski Valley’s about to crank up a new lift that definitely goes higher—up to 12,450’—just shy of the Kachina Peak summit. Otherwise, it’s a sublime hike, but strenuous. Few students are willing to take on the hour-long ski-toting trek over a rocky spine in Read More

Filed Under: Ski Stories

Wilderness Bumming

October 9, 2015 by baRb@55

The Colorado-New Mexico border area offers a stunning array of federally designated wilderness areas for all your tramping needs. I’ve often heard it said that when God takes a vacation, She goes to Colorado. But I ran into Her on the trail one fine summer day when the Canadian violets were popping flowers all along Read More

Filed Under: New Mexico Stories

Moonshining On The Mesa

October 9, 2015 by baRb@55

Out on La Otra Banda there is no water – no lakes, no rivers, no creeks and no springs. The closest water is several hundred feet down, beneath the basalt bedrock that blankets the entire plateau. The water has always been elusive. Water does come on occasion, in brief torrents dropping from silver-tipped clouds that Read More

Filed Under: Local History

NM History: Rio Grande Country

October 9, 2015 by baRb@55

Life as it was for cowboys, Indians, Spanish colonists, and miners in Rio Grande country of Colorado South Fork, Monte Vista, and Del Norte, Colorado Rio Grande Country in Colorado encompasses the towns of Monte Vista, Del Norte and South Fork. Monte Vista owes its origins to railroad expansion. In 1881, when the railroad was Read More

Filed Under: Local History, New Mexico Stories, Southern Colorado

Ski ‘Til It Hurts

October 7, 2015 by baRb@55

Time stands still for the true snow bum who knows no limit to the obsession of extreme skiing  – Standing in the lift line, there are always a few gnarly skiers edging forward. You can tell they’re hot on their boards; they have that look, like they can really rip. Must be locals. Tourists sneak Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, New Mexico Stories, Ski Stories

Clayton

October 7, 2015 by baRb@55

Stomping ground of dinosaurs, first Americans, railroad moguls, cowboys… and Black Jack Ketchum The site of Clayton has been a crossroads since time began. About 100 million years ago it was a home for dinosaurs on the edge of an ancient sea, and dinosaur tracks and bones are found throughout the area. The most impressive Read More

Filed Under: Local History

Black Jack Lives

October 7, 2015 by baRb@55

Black Jack Lives Reenactors bring Clayton history to life for Black Jack Ketchum Centennial This year marks the wild life and surprising death of Tom “Black Jack” Ketchum, northeast New Mexico’s favorite outlaw hung in Clayton, NM, April 26, 1901. Clayton will celebrate the occasion with the Black Jack Ketchum Centennial Festival June 1-2. Black Read More

Filed Under: New Mexico Stories

OUR TOWNS 2011

September 23, 2015 by baRb@55

Then followed that beautiful season… Summer … Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood. — Henry Longfellow A Midas-touch talent combined with geological flair make New Mexico a magical summer playground. Rivers run through it, mountains silently hold Read More

Filed Under: Our Towns

Our Towns – Summer 2014

September 23, 2015 by baRb@55

Mirror, Mirror “The sun never knew how wonderful it was, until it fell on the wall of a building.” — Louis Kahn With all due respect to Mr. Kahn’s architecturally-inspired view of the sun, it was Nature’s skyscrapers, the mountains, that were the sun’s original vanity-mirrors. This is supremely evident in the landscape-defining mountain ranges Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Our Towns, Southern Colorado

Shooting From The Sky – Chris Dahl-Bredine

September 22, 2015 by baRb@55

Who among us as earthbound animals hasn’t dreamed of sprouting wings and launching into the sky, free to soar over the planet? Lofty dreams few of us ever get to live. /  For Chris Dahl-Bredine, that pilot spirit started as a young boy in Silver City, NM, where he dreamed night and day of flying. “I Read More

Filed Under: Film, New Mexico Arts, New Mexico Stories

The Churro Trail

September 22, 2015 by baRb@55

A young man’s heart is stirred with a vision of the past. He wanders among the flocks of sheep raised by his family for generations, remembering a time when these animals were the economic backbone of northern New Mexico and a man’s wealth was measured by the size of his flock. In 1977, Antonio Manzanares Read More

Filed Under: Local History, New Mexico Stories

Instant Karma: The Heart And Soul Of A Ski Bum

September 22, 2015 by baRb@55

When everybody else is shoveled-out, this skier goes up again and again… and again | Excerpts from his book by Wayne Sheldrake / Just forty minutes from my home, Wolf Creek typically opened in October, earlier than any other ski area within 150 miles. Since I’m not a season ticket holder, this is a torturous Read More

Filed Under: New Mexico Stories, Ski Stories, Southern Colorado

Fire and Ice: Christmas Eve at Taos Pueblo

September 22, 2015 by baRb@55

The longest night of winter in the most beautiful place on earth | by Michelle Potter It is just about the coldest, longest night of winter. It is just about the most beautiful place on earth. If Dante’s inferno is supposed to be some sort of earthly burning hell, this must be the place, except Read More

Filed Under: New Mexico Stories

Pete Totemoff, Taos Ski Valley legend

September 22, 2015 by baRb@55

An Aleut who came to New Mexico to die and wound up revitalizing the New Mexico ski industry / Skiing, something we take for granted if it snows. Skiing, this winter activity that we find so much pleasure in and get so much fulfillment from. Skiing, something we find relatively easy to do with today’s Read More

Filed Under: Local History, New Mexico Stories, Ski Stories

Ecotourism New Mexico

September 21, 2015 by baRb@55

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference – from The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost In drawing a parallel to the poetic compass of Robert Frost: Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies

Mud and Adobe

September 21, 2015 by baRb@55

The womb of birth, which is of water And the womb of death, which is of earth. — Lise Goett But for the living, mud. And if mud is what we’re made of, those of us in northern New Mexico are very down-to-earth. Mud: it is a kind of cultural and architectural recipe. There’s mud to Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies

The Historic Taos Inn

September 21, 2015 by baRb@55

Southwestern charm and history in this quintessential NM inn located in the heart of Taos’ historic district Since 1936, The Historic Taos Inn has welcomed famous folks like Greta Garbo, D. H. Lawrence, and Pawnee Bill. More recently, celebrities such as Robert Redford and Jessica Lange have been spotted sipping margaritas in the lobby. When Read More

Filed Under: Local History

Kit Carson Home & Museum

September 21, 2015 by baRb@55

Trapper, guide, military scout, Indian agent, soldier, rancher – Kit Carson had a long and illustrious career Kit Carson’s 3-room Taos adobe home displays artifacts, antique firearms and other pioneer belongings The familiar figure of frontiersman Kit Carson, with his rough-hewn features and fringed buckskins, is an American icon everyone knows. The fascinating facts of Read More

Filed Under: Local History

Flying High For The Fun Of It

September 18, 2015 by baRb@55

Presumably the tale of Icarus strapping on wings and flying too close to the sun is meant to be a cautionary tale of the folly of hubris but it might as well be a snapshot of the human need to take flight. Even if you never leave the ground, skiing and snowboarding – now conveniently Read More

Filed Under: Ski Stories

Into The Squall – Facing the Blizzard at Wolf Creek

September 18, 2015 by baRb@55

Lost in bottomless powder, the only way to survive a storm like this is to keep skiing – I’d always thought the massive winter storms that slammed Wolf Creek collected in Canada and then funneled down the continent. Then someone told me, no, the really big systems get knocked up somewhere over Manchuria, gestate as Read More

Filed Under: Ski Stories, Southern Colorado

Hard Twist

September 16, 2015 by baRb@55

The western expression “Hard Twist” refers to the old-time Manila hemp, tightly-twisted lariat rope—hard twisted. The term also refers to a small, compact, physically strong person with resilience, rather like rawhide, which expands and stretches when wet or shrinks and tightens up when dry but almost never breaks. The role of women in the settlement Read More

Filed Under: New Mexico Stories

Navajo Saddle Blankets: Weaving a Tough History

September 16, 2015 by baRb@55

All over what is now New Mexico, you could once find Navajo saddle blankets—on actual horses, not just on the walls of upscale collectors. They were essential equipment for cowboys, a calling card. How could you get hired on as a cowboy if you didn’t show up with a genuine Navajo saddle blanket? These saddle Read More

Filed Under: Local History

Abiquiu Monks – Study, Pray, Brew

September 16, 2015 by baRb@55

It’s easy to find the Monastery of Christ in the Desert — just cross the Rio Grande in Española, and head west on Highway 84. Proceed past Abiquiu and on the right lies the Ghost Ranch. The surrounding majestic landscapes inspired Georgia O’Keeffe and contain the bones of obscure dinosaurs. Then after another mile or Read More

Filed Under: New Mexico Stories

Wild At Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton at the New Mexico History Museum

September 16, 2015 by baRb@55

Ernest Thompson Seton forever changed the way Americans look at nature. On the wintry plains of northern New Mexico in 1893, a man hired to destroy wolves looked into the eyes of the animal he had lured toward death. In that moment, Ernest Thompson Seton changed – from a wolf killer to a champion of Read More

Filed Under: Local History

From Desert to Tundra – Rocky Mountain climate zones

September 14, 2015 by baRb@55

From desert to tundra, this high country botanical journey is a study in extremes. –  Want to beat the heat this summer? Like to take a whiff of the cool, crisp sub-arctic air? Care to see the amazing flowers of the tundra? No need to take the long trek to Alaska. All it takes is Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories

Red River’s Gold Mine: A Town Remembers Its Roots

September 14, 2015 by baRb@55

As we ease our way into summer, you can feel the excitement build as the change of seasons blossoms throughout the Enchanted Circle. Within this area of unmatched beauty and geological diversity lies the Town of Red River, just north of Eagle Nest on Highway 38. Tourists flock here each summer for its wealth of Read More

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A few of the many Remarkable Women of Taos –

September 14, 2015 by baRb@55

First of Their Kind – The year-long celebration of the Remarkable Women of Taos and Northern New Mexico honors the area’s outstanding historic and contemporary women and focuses in part on their passions and accomplishments. Out of hundreds of remarkable women, this representative selection profiles Mabel Dodge Luhan, Millicent Rogers, Cleofas Jaramillo and Virginia T. Romero, Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Arts, New Mexico Stories

Native to New Mexico

August 31, 2015 by baRb@55

The Best Hot Air Balloon Flight in the World /  Just before sunrise a light breeze picks up and races along the ground rolling miniature tumbleweeds, swirling dust and bringing a shudder to the sagebrush. We are standing on the sharp volcanic rim of the Rio Grande Gorge about ten miles north of Taos, surrounded Read More

Filed Under: New Mexico Stories

New Mexico Trails

August 31, 2015 by baRb@55

Fiber Arts Trail There are few main roads in this part of the state, so you wend your way along to the back ones along the river canyons ringed in shining snow-capped peaks, into forested valleys and up over the mountains to the grassy plains that stretch to the horizon. Along the way you’ll find Read More

Filed Under: Local History

Boyz 2 Cowboys

August 31, 2015 by baRb@55

Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys… Yeah, well, tell it to a ten-year-old, especially boys hobbled in school by too much learnin,’ or penned up in the house too long with their sisters; boys with the natural wandering soul of a cowboy, untethered, slapping the imaginary hind end of a palomino, Read More

Filed Under: 10 Ways To Welcome You, Humor, Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, New Mexico Stories

Smooth Johnson – Master Of The Carve

August 21, 2015 by baRb@55

One of the great characters in SkiCountry over the years is Smooth Johnson – Master of The Carve – poster boy for Olin Skis during the 1990s. “Skin-tight race suits? What is this, ballet? When I was young, we wore ski pants and ski jackets. Not some high-tech mumbo jumbo that lowers your sperm count. Read More

Filed Under: Local History, Ski Stories

Embroiled in Witchcraft

August 21, 2015 by baRb@55

What do an author who fostered culture, a mysterious murder suspect and a progressive teacher-administrator have in common? Local residents viewed these three women — Cleofas Jaramillo, Teresita Ferguson and Josephine Córdova — as “remarkable women” during this year’s celebration of the Remarkable Women of Taos. A common underlying theme in each of their lives Read More

Filed Under: Local History

Pioneer Women

August 21, 2015 by baRb@55

Study history for any length of time and you being to realize how easy it is to get bogged down by the passage of time and events large and small; but history, like politics, is local. The histories of the Moreno Valley and Red River are like that, shaped as they were by tumultuous times Read More

Filed Under: Local History

In the Footsteps of Giants… Lawrence and O’Keeffe in New Mexico

August 10, 2015 by baRb@55

I am on the trail of two ghosts. As famous ghosts, who left behind respective legacies of words and images, they are easy to track. One was a writer, the other a painter. Celebrated, controversial, visionary, iconoclastic. These being some of the terms applied to them during their lives. Compelled by what you might call Read More

Filed Under: Local History

El Monte Sagrado – Earth-friendly design

August 1, 2015 by baRb@55

A favorite of international celebs, this green-built luxury resort and spa is also a prized sanctuary for locals From the exquisite accommodations inspired by Native American and global culture to the dramatic art collection from world-renowned and local artisans collected by the Kessler family specifically for the hotel, El Monte Sagrado lures guests into a Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies

High Country 2015

August 1, 2015 by baRb@55

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The Comanches Are Coming

May 14, 2015 by baRb@55

Alli vienen los Comanches | by Michelle Potter | Photo by Geraint Smith Northern New Mexico is a place of stunning paradox, where identities and cultures meld, hybridize, bump up against each other and explode in dizzying profusion. Ritual dances and ceremonies proliferate, especially between September 30, Taos Pueblo’s San Geronimo Feast Day, continuing through Read More

Filed Under: Local History, New Mexico Stories

Yurtmania: Who let the hordes out?

May 3, 2015 by baRb@55

More than a millennium ago nomadic Mongol hordes terrorized the steppes of Asia at top speed on their tough little ponies, ransacking and pillaging everything in their path. Who knows why, perhaps for the simple pleasure of scorched-earth conquest and having something to talk about over drinks. They brewed yak yogurt in their saddle bags, Read More

Filed Under: New Mexico Stories

The Sheriff of Hunziker Bowl

March 18, 2015 by baRb@55

By Mountaineer & Taos Ski Valley Patroller Dave Hahn. I thought the house down the road was on fire, and went down to take a look. Turns out it was on fire, and since this was in June when the whole state was drier than dinosaur bones, I was a little concerned. Huge forest fires Read More

Filed Under: New Mexico Stories, Ski Stories

Ski vacation: Enhanced torture by cheese

March 1, 2015 by baRb@55

Most people I know don’t love old goat cheese. I don’t know what’s wrong with them. My cousin Billy didn’t love it, learned not to love it. It wasn’t really his fault. It had more to do with genetics; he was victimized by relatives. A bystander. I got sucked into the deal. Billy fell asleep Read More

Filed Under: 10 Ways To Welcome You, Humor

Planks to Parabolics

February 24, 2015 by baRb@55

The Evolution Of Skis: What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been – The snow on the High Sierra was 16 feet deep. Cabin fever was the most common ailment among the miners in the high country around Lake Tahoe. Any time of year the mining camps of California and Nevada seemed to be worlds away Read More

Filed Under: Local History

One-Liners

February 17, 2015 by baRb@55

For these New Mexico actors, it’s not what you say, but how you say it But this trio of local film actors – just three of some 300 New Mexico actors who belong to the Screen Actors Guild – love movie work, whether is consists of a line or two of dialogue or a featured Read More

Filed Under: Film, New Mexico Stories

The Taos Rebellion

February 17, 2015 by baRb@55

150th Anniversary of the Taos Rebellion In the first six months of 1847 the concealed anger of Spanish-Mexicans and Pueblo Indians erupted into violence. The Rebellion claimed over 200 lives, extending from Taos to Mora and Las Vegas. The uprising changed the life of Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell, a mountain man from Illinois who married the Read More

Filed Under: Local History

Ojo Caliente Hot Springs

February 17, 2015 by baRb@55

Ojo Caliente remains a sacred gathering place for health and wellness to thousands by W. Gelfound In the 1500s, the Spaniards, in their quest for gold and the Fountain of Youth, discovered these unusual mineral springs. One explorer’s record cites, “The greatest treasure that I found these people to possess are hot springs which burst Read More

Filed Under: Life in the Southern Rockies, Local History, Our Towns

Rio Grande Country of Colorado

February 17, 2015 by baRb@55

Life as it was for cowboys, Indians, Spanish colonists, and miners in Rio Grande country of Colorado by Josephine S. Pierce South Fork, Monte Vista, and Del Norte, Colorado During 1882, Theodore C. Henry, who was looking for new canal ventures, arrived bringing investors from the east. In 1884, Chauncey S. and Henry J. Aldrich Read More

Filed Under: Local History

The Return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo

February 17, 2015 by baRb@55

Taos Pueblo’s sacred Blue Lake is a symbol of cultural strength and determination The Return of Blue Lake to the Red Willow People From the Taos Pueblo Governor’s Office… Taos Pueblo commemorated the 40th Anniversary of the return of its sacred Blue Lake and surrounding lands on Sept. 18, 2010. This remembrance and celebration observed Read More

Filed Under: Local History

Historic Taos, NM Walking Tour

February 17, 2015 by baRb@55

Welcome Visitors and Taoseños! Explore the diversity of this region through a self-guided tour. The two-hundred-year-old Taos Plaza and the streets that radiate from it like spokes form the National Historic District of Taos. It contains a number of national and state landmarks that are testimonials to the rich and complex cultural history of Taos. Read More

Filed Under: Local History

Chama, New Mexico

February 17, 2015 by baRb@55

The history of tiny Chama, NM is packed with Western adventure by Jill Lane The tiny village of Chama, New Mexico, sits at the base of 10,000-foot Sangre de Cristo Mountains in one of America’s most spectacular settings. Today, a charming tourist town, Chama exists predominantly for its historic narrow-gauge steam railroad. This same railroad Read More

Filed Under: Local History, Our Towns, Southern Colorado

New Mexico Ghosts

February 17, 2015 by baRb@55

Want to add a little chill to your summertime travel plans? Here are five spine-tingling haunts of Northern New Mexico | by John Biscello – The St. James Hotel (Cimarron): The Overlook Hotel from The Shining and The Bates Motel from Psycho have taught us, if nothing else, that not all lodgings guarantee a restful Read More

Filed Under: Local History

Ski Country 2015

February 17, 2015 by baRb@55

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Bison Wranglers

December 24, 2014 by baRb@55

Caring for the remaining herds of North American buffalo | by Steve Zimmer | Photos by Joe Zinn The sun breaks over a ridge and floods a mountain meadow with early morning light. A cowboy reins his horse toward a clearing on the far side of the park in order to see if his mother Read More

Filed Under: Local History

Frontier Landmarks

December 24, 2014 by baRb@55

Fascinating historic landmarks carry abundant stories of northeast New Mexico – by Steve Zimmer – Webster’s Dictionary defines a landmark as “a prominent identifying feature of a landscape.” In the early days of the Southwest, trappers, traders, settlers, and soldiers used landforms to guide them across the vast deserts, mountains, and plains of the region. Whenever travelers Read More

Filed Under: Local History

Chicken Coop For Rent

November 23, 2014 by baRb@55

RED RIVER, NEW MEXICO in the (REALLY) OLD DAYS | by Ellen Miller-Goins Several years back, a Red River property management company ran an ad showing a dilapidated old cabin with the caption “Not what you expected?” spacerToday’s visitor to Red River does expect such luxuries as indoor plumbing and heating (and hot tubs and Read More

Filed Under: Local History

Red River, New Mexico

November 23, 2014 by baRb@55

NEW MEXICO’S RED RIVER VALLEY HAS A RICH AND FASCINATING PAST | by Lynn T. Nolan The Red River Valley has a fascinating past. Footprints of those who walked here before are deeply embedded, and the paths are many. Pioneer days here were forged by difficult living conditions. Red River boasts a colorful history complete Read More

Filed Under: Local History

Homespun mountain golf: The wilder, the better

November 23, 2014 by baRb@55

A golf ball comes screaming by my ear,… …rattles through a few tree branches, bangs off the barn, ricochets off a tire, then rolls to a stop beside the stock tank. “Fore!” we hear after the ball has stopped, followed by hoots and howls from what looks like a band of pirates behind us. We Read More

Filed Under: 10 Ways To Welcome You, Humor

Orphaned Wild Elk Calf Gets Royal Treatment

November 23, 2014 by baRb@55

…before wearing out his welcome. Sometimes at night in the mountains, strange sounds startle you from sleep: coyotes baying at the moon, hoot owls, bear growls, horses sparring and the bugles, grunts and whistles of elk. Stories circulate of herds of hundreds of wapiti – 700, 800, 900 – toppling fences as they cross a Read More

Filed Under: 10 Ways To Welcome You

Bubba the dog runs away with the Boy Scouts

November 23, 2014 by baRb@55

A friend called me a dog the other day: not as in “You old dog,” which I’ve been called before, but a hipper version. “Yo Dog… what up?” It got me thinking, sort of, about dogs here in the southern Rockies, how they penetrate our lives and language – sly dog, lucky dog, dog tired, etc. Read More

Filed Under: 10 Ways To Welcome You, Humor, Life in the Southern Rockies

Born to be wild: The love of the road hits us all

November 23, 2014 by baRb@55

“BRAKES!” That was the scream from the driver of our four-passenger mini-bike – a homemade job with a mammoth seat mounted on top of a lawnmower motor – each time we neared an intersection or a squirrel dared to dart out in front of us. We were the brakes, three riders on back hanging onto Read More

Filed Under: 10 Ways To Welcome You, Humor, Life in the Southern Rockies

Serious winter fun: No limit to lunacy

November 23, 2014 by baRb@55

Looking out the living room window, Itchy Butt was on fire, burning to get outside. Snow was hammering the window panes; you could tell the storm was going to be big, maybe a monster dump. But no matter how hard Itchy Butt stared at the storm, no matter how forlorn the look on his face, Read More

Filed Under: 10 Ways To Welcome You, Humor, Life in the Southern Rockies

Everybody’s a kid on a winter pond

November 22, 2014 by baRb@55

…no matter what.  Growing up in winter, kids started firing up for winter games long before the cold arrived. We were the local weather bureau, analyzing temperature drops and wind patterns to determine when the first snowflakes would fly. And when the ponds would freeze. Ice ponds were sacred grounds; we worshipped winter there, immune Read More

Filed Under: 10 Ways To Welcome You, Humor, Life in the Southern Rockies

Viking dude goes for the gold

November 22, 2014 by baRb@55

It was piercing, even in memory; the bone-chilling, blood-curdling scream is hard to forget. But that’s what sticks out in my mind from a trek years back, spring skiing above Horseshoe Lake. We left the trailhead in the upper Red River Canyon just before daybreak, slipping on our backpacks with cross country skis bungeed to Read More

Filed Under: 10 Ways To Welcome You, Humor, Life in the Southern Rockies

Treasure, mystery, and the legend of Old Man Gallagher lurk at the bottom

November 22, 2014 by baRb@55

When they started flooding Eagle Nest Lake in 1917, one story has it that Old Man Gallagher “swore and be damned” they’d have to carry him off the porch of his house in the lake bottom, kicking and screaming the whole way. Of course tales about oldtimers tend to run tall. About 25 years ago, we Read More

Filed Under: 10 Ways To Welcome You, Humor, Life in the Southern Rockies

There’s nothing like a good visit with veciños

November 22, 2014 by baRb@55

Last night’s storm shook our old log house, about ripped the adobe right out of the walls. It was the first snow of the year – heavy stuff that grabbed hold of everything. It would make the day’s wood splitting with Curly a little tougher, certainly more miserable. The morning packed a cold punch. All Read More

Filed Under: 10 Ways To Welcome You, Humor, Life in the Southern Rockies

Night skiing with the crazies

November 22, 2014 by baRb@55

Grunge vs. Glam.   Although it was only 4:30 in the afternoon when we loaded up the car, the winter light was starting to dim. But it would be good and dark when we arrived at the ski area around 6 for another night of night skiing. It would also be good and cold, but we Read More

Filed Under: 10 Ways To Welcome You, Humor, Life in the Southern Rockies, Ski Stories

High Country 2014

July 16, 2014 by baRb@55

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