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Sacaton Creek
July 11, 2025
With the Trout Fire closing off many of our favorite summer hiking trails, we redirected to the west side of the Gila. But despite the recent monsoon rains, some "permanent" streams remain bone dry.
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White Mountain Refuge
June 17-23, 2025
Escaping to Arizona's White Mountains to avoid the heat and smoke from a major wildfire near Silver City.
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Great Sand Dunes
May 16-25, 2025
A slow meander from Silver City to Great Sand Dunes and back, using secondary roads the whole way.
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Alum Camp
April 24, 2025
The Alum Camp hike is a perennial favorite, offering easy access to an astounding section of the Continental Divide Trail along the main stem Gila River.
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Dunsmuir
April 13-21, 2025
At long last, we embarked on TrainTrip 2.0, from Deming, New Mexico to Dunsmuir, a picturesque northern California town that we first saw from the train on our way to Seattle in 2019.
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Bisti De-Na-Zin/Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah
March 16-22, 2025
A planned expedition to Bisti De-Na-Zin and Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah was derailed by an unusually warm and dry spring followed by a cold and snowy winter (yes, you read that correctly).
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The Gnarly Trail
March 8-10, 2025
A freak snowstorm derailed a Gila Trails work trip to Red Canyon. The location was switched to the Gnarly Trail in the Burro Mountains, an extension of the CDT near Saddle Mountain.
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Spring on the Bluff
Spring 2025
We spent much of January working on our "defensible space", but still enjoyed some spectacular hikes in Lower Gila Box. When the trail ended, we continued sidehilling and bushwhacking upstream, scrambling under/over/around enormous boulders.
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Twixmas Hikes and Campout
December 28-30, 2024
I've heard it called "Twixmas", "Dead Week" or even "Feral Week". It's those precious few days between Christmas and New Years when we're allowed to take off and tune out.
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Exploring Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument
December 20-25, 2024
When our original holiday travel plans collapsed, we decided to use the time to explore the far corners of the relatively new Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument.
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Knight Peak
December 17, 2024
The last time we hiked around Knight Peak, we got caught in a freak snowstorm. We returned on a much nicer day. Maybe a little too nice. it should not be 70° in the middle of December!
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Steeple Rock
December 9-10, 2024
We were crestfallen when our long-planned train trip to Seattle fell apart the day before our departure. But after a day or so of moping, we concluded that the best remedy was a road trip.
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Quartz Mountain
December 3, 2024
A few photos from our latest trek to a minor peak I call "Quartz Mountain." It's one of the favorites for Gila Hikers, and we have we have photographed it many times. The gleaming white summit makes a great subject, especially viewed against New Mexico's azure blue skies!
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Petroglyphs in a Hidden Canyon
November 26, 2024
We have visited the well-known petroglyph sites north of Deming numerous times. Years ago I ran across brief mention and vague directions to another, smaller site in the same area.
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San Vicente in the Fall
November 5-8, 2024
A few photos from Fall along San Vicente Creek. It's a wonderful in-town hike, and there are several new trails in the area.
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Shelter from the Storm
November 5-8, 2024
As election day approached, we decided to escape the news cycle by heading to the lower Gila Box and the eastern Chiricahuas, narrowly missing a massive snowstorm in central and northern New Mexico.
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Sapillo Box
October 19-21, 2024
Everyone who hikes with me knows I've been jonesing to get to Sapillo Box for a very long time. But access is difficult.
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Fall Foliage on the Cumbres & Toltec
October 3-9, 2024
Last year, for my 70th birthday, we celebrated by booking the parlor car on the run from Antonito to Osier. It was so much fun that we decided to do it again from the Chama side, repeating that ride from 38 years ago.
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The Sawtooths
September 20-23, 2024
We've been itching to return to the Sawtooth Mountains ever since we washed up there after our disastrous foray into the Withington Wilderness.
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Mogollon Box
September 15, 2024
When our intended destination didn't work out, we "settled" for a delightful meander along the Gila River.
