The Alien Run Trails are technically challenging and scenic mountain bike trails routed near an alleged UFO crash site in Aztec, NM. The area boasts rugged singletrack winding through pinon tree and desert scrub badlands with playful slickrock areas. Allegedly, in March of 1948, a UFO was rumored to have been tracked by radar and …
The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is a 60 mile remote rolling landscape of badlands with some of the most unusual scenery found in the Four Corners Region. Time and natural elements have etched a fantasy world of strange rock formations made of interbedded sandstone, shale, mudstone, coal, and silt. We’ve seen this topography/geology several times in our …
Derek and I finally rode some of the trails in Farmington, NM. We started in the BLM Glade Run Recreation Area, featuring 19,000 acres of slick rock, rolling terrain, and sandy arroyos. This is high desert so there is a lot of sage, pinon pine and juniper. It being a weekday, we didn’t see any other …
Blue Range Wilderness along the New Mexico/Arizona border is a gem. It’s high altitude with giant ponderosa pines. While I hiked out along Pueblo Creek, Derek rode up to the lookout on Saddle Mountain. My whole day can be described as beautiful isolated mountain scenery. I didn’t come across any other hikers the whole day. …
New Mexico is underrated. This last 5 weeks in the Gila National Forest underscored that for me. We took a couple hours to hike the Gold Dust Trail that goes further up Whitewater Canyon from the Catwalk Trail we did the other day. There isn’t much info on this hike and I don’t think a …
The Catwalk Trail The Catwalk Trail starts in Whitewater Canyon, which played a pivotal role in the mining saga of the late 1800s and early 1990s. The town of Graham was located at the mouth of the canyon where a mill was built in 1893. The ruins of the mill still cling to the canyon …
First off, I cannot say enough good things about this hike. It is off the beaten path and not on the radar of most people I’m sure, but should be. Start to finish this hike along/through/across Mineral Creek is fabulous. This can be an out and back hike, or a through hike if you are …
historic Buckhorn Saloon and Opera House in Piños Altos, New Mexico was an awesome find. When we were in Silver City a couple years ago, it was closed because of the pandemic so we couldn’t visit. This time we stopped by after a hike along Cherry Creek. First about the hike. Cherry Creek is a …
Tour of the Gila is 5 stage iconic American bicycle race that is now known nationally and internationally based out of Silver City, New Mexico. The Saturday Criterium is a crowd pleaser and we headed downtown to check it out. A criterium is a short closed course race, in this case it’s a mile comprised …
We’re nearing the end of our time around Silver City and I realized I missed a couple days of pics. None of these look terribly different then all the other photos. We’ve been above 6000′ for over a month now and spring is definitely here. The flowers are starting to come out in the high …