“Hooper Pool,” officially known as the Sand Dunes Swimming Pool, feels like it sits back in time. If you weren’t looking for it, you’d never see it, but it is sure not to be missed. In the sand and the sagebrush, two miles off the highway, 20 miles north of Alamosa, sits the sparkling warm …
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On the Santa Fe Trail (Part II)
As we approached Bent's Fort, my son noted that there were two busloads of children touring the site. It is certainly not as "lost" as our trip to Fort Union felt. And as we approached the Fort itself, we recognized it as re-constructed, not at all like the ruins of the Fort in northern New …
Finding the Santa Fe Trail (Part I)
Sometimes things that aren't lost are pretty hard to find. And once you discover them, you realize you've simply got to tell everyone you know because the treasure just might disappear forever if other people don't know about it. This is how we felt about finding Fort Union National Park about thirty miles north of Las …
Sunday morning walk to Petaca Point
A short drive over Taos Junction Bridge and up a steep dirt road with several switchbacks to the West Rim of the Rio Grande Gorge will take you to the trailhead of Petaca Point Trail. Petaca Canyon is an easy four miles, along the rim of the Rio Grande Gorge. Because the trail runs along …
Sunset Project at Daylight Savings
Over the weekend the time of the sunset shifted by an hour. I adjusted by alarm to remind me to take my photograph. But I laughed because "sunset photo!" is becoming a part of our family evening. . . a family activity as we think about our evening walk or run, or part of our …
Tent Rocks: someplace you gotta go, and my family thought they looked a little like something else . . .
Yes, they're called tent rocks, but as you wander through the trail to the top of the mesa, it feels like you're wandering through another world. A bit like Star Wars or a bit phallus depending on your state of mind, but in either case, it is magnificent. The monument is about an hour north …
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