Our next weekend excursion with the pop-up (PUP) took us back to Gila National Forest in a quest to further explore the lower elevations of the western Mogollon Range. We were not quite… Continue reading
Over the next few months we spent 4 weekends in the Greater Ruidoso area, most of them camped out on the Fort Stanton mesa. Though there is little shade there versus the forested… Continue reading
Our second adventure with the pop-up camper (PUP) was a 3 day affair in the northwestern section of Gila National Forest. At more than 4 hours drive time from Las Cruces this area… Continue reading
“I wish we could spend the whole weekend here,” I sighed, guiding the truck slowly down the steep, tight switchbacks of dirt in low gear. Moments before I’d been concentrating on muscling our… Continue reading
With all construction activity ordered to cease by Habitat for Humanity, I temporarily found myself with a much more flexible work schedule. In the second week of April or so our affiliate began… Continue reading
Beginning sometime in February, Abbs and I were once again on our own for our Sunday hikes. As I mentioned in the first blog post in the solitude series, spending my Sundays with… Continue reading
Late January and February were pretty tough for me for a bunch of reasons so rather than huffing it up and down the mountains and further exhausting myself Abbs and I spent a… Continue reading
By the end of January we hadn’t had any snowfall in southern New Mexico for a few weeks and it was beginning to look like my dreams of snowshoeing wouldn’t be coming true… Continue reading
Gail and I did two more hikes in the Sacramento Mountains during her stay in New Mexico, one in December before Christmas break and the second in mid-January. The first, a 10 mile… Continue reading
A few days following our return to work after winter break we had some snow in the desert of Las Cruces, which boded very well for significant accumulation in the mountains. Except that… Continue reading
