The Big Hairy Crack. I won't tell you where it is in the Wichita Mountains, but maybe I'll take you there someday. Maybe not.
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On this particular day, five dogs pulled nine humans through Spanish Canyon just as we pulled them.
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Before driving back from Santa Fe, Angie and I wanted to hike the beautiful slot canyons of Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument. It was an easy but fun hike. I’m pretty proud of the pictures. I can’t wait to check out the slot canyons of Utah and Arizona. We’re most likely going to make a little trip to Utah this Spring. It was the perfect way to end our trip.
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While we were in Santa Fe, Angie and I took a little trip over to Los Alamos to the Old Mitchell Trail to see the Natural Arch there.
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The Jan One hike has become a tradition for me. This was my third year in a row. My friends Britney and Jessica joined me on a cold morning. I think it was 7ºF when we woke up that day.
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My best black & white shots of 2017.
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I was feeling under the weather Saturday and didn’t want to make any of my dirtbag friends deal with my snotty nose, so I drove down for a five-hour hike on an overcast day.
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Day Two of De Cooper and I scouting Crapshoot.
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De Cooper and I started a long overdue scout of an area we call Crapshoot. For the last two years, De has had this idea of combining this tough hike with another tough hike we call The Chavez.
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I went on a great hike to Granite Mountain in my beloved Wichita Mountains with Angie LaPaglia, Paulina Ćwik, Britney Neubecker, and De Cooper. It’s a longer trek than some with a lot of small spaces to crawl through. At some point the term “Women of Rock” came to mind as I had this amazing adventure with three tough women.
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My friend, the proliferant John Reenan, asked me the weekend before if I had ever explored or ascended the northwest part of Elk Mountain. I realized I never had. I was freed up this past Sunday morning so I decided to take a solo hike there so I could tell John that I had indeed explored that area.
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Angie LaPaglia and I took a tram up to 8,516 feet and hike the 12 mile round trip to Mount San Jacinto at the altitude of 10,834 feet. The mountain is located near Palm Springs, CA.
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My friend Blake Batchelor found this map in an old book about the Wichita Mountains that was published in 1978 by OU Press.
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