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
Mountain Memories
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
Southwest’s largest ski operator adds more mountains
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
Heart of the Pueblo
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
OUR TOWNS 2011
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
Our Towns – Summer 2014
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
The Comanches Are Coming
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