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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.
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Mogollon Box to the Gila River
September 7, 2024
A few of us got together to explore a "trail" that leaves from Mogollon Box and leads over a ridge to drop down to the Gila River.
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Signal Peak to Meadow Creek
September 3, 2024
It was just a day hike with Gila Hikers, but when it turned out to be just Ken, Dennis and me, we decided to go adventuring. Instead of our planned Signal Peak/Black Peak loop, we headed down the CDT "Classic" from Signal Peak Ridge.
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Black Peak
August, 2024
Dennis and I joined in a work day with the Continental Divide Trail Coalition near Signal Peak. Delighted to discover an abundance of great hiking nearby, we returned the following week with the Gila Hikers.
