Where Is Everyone Hiking in the Santa Fe area? (Tesuque: house, live)
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My wife and I are moving into Santa Fe (El Dorado), at the end of this year.
Since we're both pushing 60; our days of gator wrestling, bungee jumping, and freestyle rock climbing, are probably behind us?
We both LOVE outdoor activities though, especially hiking with our two Shelties.
We are looking for relatively easy, dog-friendly hiking trails, around the Santa Fe area.
Any and all suggestions will be GREATLY appreciated!!
Congrats on your move to Eldorado. We have been here for a year and a half and we love it -- more every day.
The great news I have for you is that Eldorado has a simply awesome wilderness area for the use of the residents. Most of the trails are easy to walk, and dogs are allowed. We have two American Eskimos and they love going to the wilderness preserve.
Here are some posts I have made on my blog site about the Eldorado preserve - you can see some pictures there:
It is on the opposite end of town from you but -- the BLM's Nambe Badlands Trail is a fairly flat figure 8 that attracts some hikers with dogs. You should have the dogs under control in some manner. Since it is relatively flat it also attract bikers and horseback riders. Not many -- it is unual to run into someone else. Motorized vehicles are not allowed.
If you want to maybe work a little harder you can walk along one of the ridges and get totally away from the bikes and horses. It is hard to get lost because the Sangre de Christos mountains are quite visible to the east and the Jemez are visible to the west and both give you a the north-south orientation.
The trail is described in several of the hiking books and is mentioned on-line.
Congrats on your move to Eldorado. We have been here for a year and a half and we love it -- more every day.
The great news I have for you is that Eldorado has a simply awesome wilderness area for the use of the residents. Most of the trails are easy to walk, and dogs are allowed. We have two American Eskimos and they love going to the wilderness preserve.
Here are some posts I have made on my blog site about the Eldorado preserve - you can see some pictures there:
Nice photos. I'm jealous -- you seem to have some pinyon down there that survived. I have about ten on my property, but they are all small and have grown up from seed after the big die-off.
Thanks for the information!
Should be fun exploring New Mexico with the pooches.
I would imagine Rattlesnakes would pose more of a risk than in my neck of the woods (Western Maryland)?
Our new place in Eldorado has a nice Coyote fenced backyard, so they will enjoy being outside.
Me too!
Thanks for the information!
Should be fun exploring New Mexico with the pooches.
I would imagine Rattlesnakes would pose more of a risk than in my neck of the woods (Western Maryland)?
Steve
Maybe other people have different experience -- but my impression is that the open arid areas around here don't get many rattlesnakes. (I think El Dorado could be characterized as open and arid, but others know better.) I have never seen a rattlesnake in five years just south of the Nambe Badlands and I am out doors a lot. The non-venomous Bull or Gopher snake seems better adapted to the lack of water. The only time I even heard of rattlesnames around here was an unusually rainy wet season several years and the flooding seemed to push them up from wetter areas to the south of us. Then they acted confused, sitting out in the open and often suffering a violent death.
The only place I have heard a rattlesnake was in the Eldorado preserve and that was when a dog was nosing around some rocks. The owner called the dog off and that stopped it. I just hiked in the Galisteo Basin south (?) of Eldorado that was nice and easy. It wasn't there when I lived in Eldorado - we went to eat in the train car in Lamy afterwards--fun day. I also use to hike with my dogs on BLM land at the end Avenida Vista Grande --I forget if that's the name but it's the road the stores are on. That was mostly rolling and flat. There was an old adobe house falling down out there.
Tesuque Creek is closed because of the fires, as is the entire ski basin, and Atalya. I've been hitting Picacho, but that's getting stale.
Thoughts?
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Where Is Everyone Hiking?
