Category Archives: Locales

Holiday Mesa Hike – 07/26/2015

This was a memorable hike.  The goal was to visit the Kwastiyukwa  (Great Footprint) Ruins on Holiday Mesa.  We made a valiant try, but with the elevation gain, distance, and summer heat we gave out in the face of another … Continue reading

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10K – 08/30/2015

Feb 2018: This is another ‘looking back’ entry in our Hiking Journal. The Hike Statistics Total Distance:  4.0 miles Elevation: start 9,975 ft, maximum 10,042 ft,  minimum 9,837 ft Gross gain: 67 ft.  Aggregate ascending 1,042 ft, descending 1,036 ft … Continue reading

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Piño Hike – 10/12/2015

Feb 2018: This is another ‘looking back’ entry in our Hiking Journal. The Hike Statistics Total Distance:  6.51 miles Elevation: start 6,423 ft, maximum 8,084 ft,  minimum 6,423 ft Gross gain: 1,662 ft.  Aggregate ascending 1,972 ft, descending 1,981 ft … Continue reading

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Elena Gallegos, North Hike – 03/01/2013

A hike made long ago, before I started the Hiking BLOG. Statistics Total Distance:  3.54 miles Elevation: start 6,450 ft, maximum 6,687 ft,  minimum 6,378 ft Gross gain: 319 ft.  Aggregate ascending 594 ft, descending 578 ft Maximum slope: 24% … Continue reading

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Cebolla Canyon Hike – 06/29/2014

An after-the-fact post of this hike that Jay and I made before I started the BLOG. One of our early hikes, checking out trails in the Jemez Mountains. Jay here: I had done this hike with a group way back … Continue reading

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Moon-Rito Peñas Negras Hike – 06/25/2017

This is our second off-the-beaten-path hike, which I planned using GoogleEarth and topographic resources (such as Lists of John’s Interactive Map and the US Topo app on my Android tablet & phone).  The goal here was to hike up Moon Canyon, then … Continue reading

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Telephone Canyon Plus Hike – 06/11/2017

Having exploited all the trail for which I could find others’ tracks, I spent some time on GoogleEarth and top maps (for example, Lists of John’s Interactive Map)  to develop a plan to hike up Telephone Canyon, descend into Calaveras … Continue reading

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Pony Canyon Hike – 06/04/2017

We returned again to the Jemez Mountains, to explore the canyons north of Fenton Lake. The Drive In This time we drove up FR 378, to the head of the set of canyons that branch off of Calaveras Canyon – … Continue reading

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Calaveras Canyon Hike – 05/28/2017

‘Tis summer, and the Jemez Mountains offer temperatures that are not so high as elsewhere near Albuquerque.  So we’ve returned again to the area of other recent hikes, Oat-Hay Canyon and Barley Canyon, to another of the numerous canyons above … Continue reading

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Barley Canyon Hike – 05/07/2017

Seeking trails new to us, we came upon ASCHG’s Barley Canyon hike.  The Jemez Mountains are better this time of year, a higher elevation than around Albuquerque and generally nicely wooded forest. ‘Tis a bit distant from Albuquerque (90+ miles … Continue reading

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