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I’ve been silently fuming for years about the dumbing down of the elevation of Sierra Blanca, the tallest mountain in southern New Mexico that was once listed as 12,003 feet in elevation. I grew up in Ruidoso, with Sierra Blanca looming to the west and towering over any other mountains south of Interstate 40. It’sContinue reading “Sierra Blanca has more “jut” than Wheeler Peak…”