Over Labor Day weekend we rafted the Rio Chama, a wild and scenic river a couple of hours away in New Mexico. We did this trip five years ago (also on Labor Day weekend!), with a completely different group of people, and once in between then and now. The river is dam controlled with releases on weekends; though sometimes enough water flows during ( Read more... )

We did our annual backpack in the Weminuche Wilderness at the end of July, but gah, I have so many photos to go through and so much to write about that I haven't even started trying! So instead have a very short write-up about a mini-trip we did last week to the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in New Mexico.

As you probably know, the Perseid meteor ( Read more... )

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First mountain bike ride of the year! (Also, first mountain bike crash of the year, but I'm okay; I've got a couple of scrapes on my hands and arms, and a knot the size of an egg on my right shin. I feel it with every step. I expect I will turn all sorts of pretty colors tomorrow ( Read more... )

Ah, Labor Day. The day on which we celebrate not laboring, by doing stuff like this:


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I've been doing stuff! But somehow failing to update.

( Labor Day weekend near Taos: gawking at hot-air balloons, climbing Wheeler Peak, and getting stitches in my elbow )

Aztec Ruins are not actually Aztec ruins, but the 19th century white guys who found, restored, and named them didn't know any better. They are actually pre-Puebloan (what used to be called Anasazi) structures built and occupied between about 1100 and 1300. Pots and other artifacts found there suggest that the earlier occupation was related to ( Read more... )

If you want to be amused by the sight of me gasping like a landed trout as I race toward the end of my half marathon last weekend, here are the official pictures. Some of them (from the middle portion of the race) aren't too bad, but mostly? I look like a fish ( Read more... )