hiking

From the WPA to the present…

Last weekend was the official opening of the remodeled and updated Glenwood, NM, fish hatchery which now produces only the once endangered Gila trout species. I managed to get a personal tour of the facility while our Trout Unlimited organization hosted an information booth at the “GILAFEST” celebration. That event commemorated the updated hatchery andContinue reading “From the WPA to the present…”

Sierra Blanca has more “jut” than Wheeler Peak…

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…”