Anybody with NM photos? (Farmington, Las Vegas: tenants, best, average)

[uggabugga]

thanks, guys. i have tons more if i can ever locate the dang dvd i burned them onto.

towanda, it was fairly strenuous. my calves were killing me the next day, that's for sure

this little guy seemed to be pretty used to getting handouts all the way up top:

[Poncho_NM]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

this little guy seemed to be pretty used to getting handouts all the way up top:

You're saying the little guy beat you up the trail

Hermits Peak has been on our list of places to stop at for years.



Rich

[uggabugga]

rich-

do it. it's definitely worth the excercise.

on my first try hiking hermit's, i had no intention of going to the top; i'd just bought a new digital camera [same one that took these pics, back when they went for approximately 300 bucks per megapixel] and went out for some scenic views. this is the last picture i took before it got too dark.



i kept going and going, looking for a clearing out of the trees, and before i realized it i'd hiked over 3 hours, and still no great view, even though i was very near the peak. plus, it was almost dark. so i hiked down the mountain, back to the car. oh, sh*t!! where the hell are my keys!?

aaaaaall the way back up to where i last stopped, as near as i could tell. no keys. aaaall the way back to the car in the dark, looking for something shiny on the trail. still nothing.

on down to el porvenir, past the useless locked car, and still on down thru gallinas canyon, in the dark, 6 miles to the cabin of my friends from NM highlands U. i had lived in a tiny travel trailer outside their cabin the first 4 months after i moved to the area, with no water/gas/electric, before the ponderous bureacracy that is NMHU finally spit out my first paycheck. during that time i took a bath 2x a week in the hot springs on the way to work, and washed my hair in the sink at the lab i worked in.

i begged to borrow their beat up toyota 4x4, drove 15 miles back in to las vegas, broke a window, climbed thru window for my spare set of car keys. back to friend's cabin, back to el porvenir.

into trusty rusted honda with spare keyset and finally back to crummy rental house at 2 a.m. after at least 20 miles hiking mostly steep uphill/steep downhill, the next day i could barely walk. and i owed the university $300 for 6 lost university keys; i was already behind on my rent.

two days later back at the U, i got a call from furr's supermarket. this was back when they were still open at the corner of hot springs blvd. and mills ave. someone had turned in my keys with the furrs finder tag on them.

overjoyed, i biked like a geriatric to pick up my keys. they didn't record the name of the person who turned them in, but recalled that the good samaritan had recognized them as university keys. also, this person had left a phone number.

i called them to say thanks. as it turns out, this wonderful fellow, who i had never met, worked directly overhead in the same freakin' building as me. he found my keys on the trail the day after i lost them, and saw a black bear within 5 minutes of finding them.

i swear on my life, this is a true story. yet people sometimes can't understand why i'll always love poor, forgotten las vegas.

good times

sorry for rambling.

[Towanda]

ugga bugga ~~ Great story!

[uggabugga]

thanks towanda, glad you enjoyed it.

[desert sun]

Farmington,NM









it was snowing a little today

[desert sun]

San Ysidro,NM




inbetween Cuba and San Ysidro


Cuba,NM








Bloomfield,NM






Aztec,NM








NW New Mexico near the Colorado border




outside of Cuba

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Good shots Desert Sun.


Rich

[Cathy4017]

Thanks for sharing! The drive between Cuba and Farmington on 550 is just amazing...all of the beautiful colors and formations.....

Aztec reminds me of a CO mining town, and is more CO than NM.

If I move farther north, I am REALLY going to miss the beautiful Sacramentos and San Andres here...as well as the canyons. I'm really torn, too. Alamo is a great little town, but there is never going to be skiing nearby much, and the summers are always going to be hotter than I like. If I hadn't checked Alamo temperature-wise for the ski season of 2006 (Cloudcroft/Ruidoso, which had their best seasons in years), I probably wouldn't be here. Although it was not originally on my list, it was in the back of my mind mainly because of the ease in gettting home to check on my aging parents, much easier at 400 than 800 miles.

But neither Farmington and Cuba can compare to Alamogordo for scenery. The upside is the reliable snow at Wolf Creek and Purgatory/DMR, which Ski Apache will never have, maybe about every 3-4 years.

*Tears hair out*

I am enjoying this cooler weather, though the dust storm yesterday wasn't all that great, LOL!!

[domino]

Originally Posted by Cathy4017

Thanks for sharing! The drive between Cuba and Farmington on 550 is just amazing...all of the beautiful colors and formations.....

Aztec reminds me of a CO mining town, and is more CO than NM.

If I move farther north, I am REALLY going to miss the beautiful Sacramentos and San Andres here...as well as the canyons. I'm really torn, too. Alamo is a great little town, but there is never going to be skiing nearby much, and the summers are always going to be hotter than I like. If I hadn't checked Alamo temperature-wise for the ski season of 2006 (Cloudcroft/Ruidoso, which had their best seasons in years), I probably wouldn't be here. Although it was not originally on my list, it was in the back of my mind mainly because of the ease in gettting home to check on my aging parents, much easier at 400 than 800 miles.

But neither Farmington and Cuba can compare to Alamogordo for scenery. The upside is the reliable snow at Wolf Creek and Purgatory/DMR, which Ski Apache will never have, maybe about every 3-4 years.

*Tears hair out*

I am enjoying this cooler weather, though the dust storm yesterday wasn't all that great, LOL!!

No doubt, the year you pick up and move, there will be record snowfall in the Sacramentos and great skiing at Ski Apache and Cloudcroft! It seems to always work that way.