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Cerro Grande Trail Hike – 06/25/2019

A hike to the summit of Cerro Grande, the tallest mountain in Valles Caldera National Preserve. Continue reading

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Jaramillo Creek Hike – 06/24/2019

Our 2nd day of a 4 day visit to Valles Caldera. We brought our bikes to learn if we’re ready for biking on back country roads. A friend’s description of the roads in the Valle encouraged us to give it … Continue reading

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Little Tesuque-Carol’s-Juan Trails Hike – 06/16/2019

 Another hike near Santa Fe (thus, having a new tag: Urban for hikes easily accessible for folks living in the city). This makes a quite nice loop, with easy trail surfaces and moderate elevation changes and slopes. It begins … Continue reading

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Upper Frijoles Canyon Overlook Trail Hike – 06/23/2019

This hike is the first during 4 days of camping at Jemez Falls Campground. Its about a 2.5 hour drive from Albuquerque, towing our R-Pod up US 550, then NM 4 past La Cueva to this very nice National Forest … Continue reading

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Bear Wallow-Winsor-Borrega Trails Hike – 06/02/2019

Ok, so we’ve hiked this before. Not much has changed, except this time we went around the loop in the clockwise direction and we didn’t extend the hike as far up Tesuque Creek. The Hike Bear Wallow-Winsor-Borrega Hike.Jay.2019-06-02   Statistics … Continue reading

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Cerro Grande Trail Hike – 05/29/2019

Our third day camping/hiking in the Jemez Mountains, in and around Valles Caldera. Having worn ourselves thin on the Alamo Spring hike the day before, we intended to limit hiking this day. So, to start the day we headed south … Continue reading

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Alamo Spring Trail Hike – 05/28/2019

This was our 2nd day of 3 days camping and hiking around Valles Caldera in the Jemez Mountains. ‘Tho we would like to have headed deep into the Caldera, the washed out road just 5 miles in held us at … Continue reading

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VC02 South Mountain Hike – 05/27/2019

This was our first hike during a 3 days visit to the Jemez Mountains, in the vicinity of the Valles Caldera National Preserve.  We set up our R-Pod trailer/camper in the Jemez Falls Campground, a base camp from which to … Continue reading

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Rio en Medio Trail Hike – 05/26/2019

Hiking again close to Santa Fe, this time driving around through Tesuque to En Medio and the Rio en Medio Trail #163. The Drive In As it was for our Little Tesuque Creek hike, the trailhead is near the end … Continue reading

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Dale Ball Loop North Trail Hike – 05/23/2019

As part of a trip to Santa Fe, we sought out a medium length trail, chose this loop in the Dale Ball Trails system. The Drive In The trail begins in the Sierra del Norte Trailhead, the first one heading … Continue reading

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