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					  <title><![CDATA[Tortugas Pilgrimage for la Virgen de Guadalupe]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[I&#039;m awakened at 5 in the morning by the sound of gunfire. 

No, it&#039;s not some gang bangers blasting away in the dark, nor even hunters harrying doves; it&#039;s something entirely different, my neighbors in nearby Tortugas pueblo beginning their dawn ceremony in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe. 
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Tom Lynch)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:52:40 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[War Eagles Museum]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[You wouldn&#039;t expect to find a world-class air museum in tiny Santa Teresa, just outside El Paso, Texas, but there it sits. The War Eagles Museum is an eye-opening find for nostalgia buffs such as Lt. Col. (Retired) Lloyd Mettes of Oxford, Indiana, who said, &quot;I flew seventy P-38 missions during World War Two - reconnaissance mostly, but a few combat missions.&quot; Looking at the black beauty (one of only seven left in the world) sitting on the hangar floor, he said, &quot;This is really an early version of the P-38.&quot;]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Charlie McDonald)</author>
					  <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:04:28 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[The Luna Valley Ruins-attempting to preserve ten rooms and a great kiva]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[ 
The high valley in which the tiny town of Luna, New Mexico, sits is surpassingly beautiful. The San Francisco River courses by under enormous cottonwood trees, and the green valley stretches between piney mountains. Luna itself, rustic and basic, could hail from an era when cowpokes rode alongside their herds, ropes a-twirl, spurs flashing in the sunlight.
Actually, an even more radical time shift is required of the visitor who would take in everything Luna has to offer. With the re-opening of the Hough Ruin (pronounced HUFF), one must stretch one's imagination 700 years back in time, when another civilization peopled this lovely valley.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Drusilla Claridge)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:21:21 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[The Catwalk]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[The Catwalk, a National Recreation trail along the canyon of Whitewater Creek, is a unique feature of southwestern New Mexico. Located five miles east of Glenwood (take Hwy. 180 to 174), it presents an always vibrant journey along a path reflecting the region's mining history. The canyon was used as a hideout by both Geronimo and Butch Cassidy. 
The Catwalk follows the path of the pipeline built in the 1890s to deliver water to the mining town of Graham. Workmen who had to enter the canyon by crawling atop the narrow pipeline named the route the "Catwalk." ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Fred Cleaver)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:20:54 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[The Bursum Road]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[ 
The Bursum Road runs through the middle of Mogollon. Photo by Carla DeMarco
One of my favorite drives is along the Bursum Road, which turns east from Hwy 180 about 4 miles north of Glenwood and climbs to Mogollon, Willow Creek, and Snow Lake. The Bursum Road takes the traveler from desert heat at the San Francisco River to alpine woods of aspen and fir in the Mogollon Mountains. 
It came as a surprise to find out that not everyone finds this enchanting drive the perfect summer outing. What's the problem?]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Drusilla Claridge)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:20:20 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[January in Datil&#039;s Swingle Canyon - an exercise in cold]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.southernnewmexico.com/articles/120/1/January-in-Datil039s-Swingle-Canyon---an-exercise-in-cold/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[January, the start of a new year, a new century, a new millennium. A year, a blank slate in which the furnace hasn&#8217;t yet broken, the road hasn&#8217;t mudded out, the chimney hasn&#8217;t caught fire, the pump hasn&#8217;t quit. All these joys of winter life in Datil&#8217;s Swingle Canyon are yet to come. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Anne Sullivan)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:19:18 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Frisco Box-true canyoneering]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[If the perfect dayhike combines beauty, drama, and moderate physical activity, then a dayhike to the Frisco Box is perfection. The drive to the trailhead is scenic. The walk is pleasantly level. And the 3 mile trek climaxes in a startling box canyon the width of a large living room. Through this room flows the San Francisco River. Craggy rock walls rise above the stream bed, which in many places is also the canyon bottom. Amid this harsh geology, cottonwoods and alders have found a foothold, adding further lushness to the green of Virginia creeper, grapevine, willow, and wild rose. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Sharman Apt Russell)</author>
					  <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:14:43 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[The Trinity Site - Day One, double sunrise]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Day One of the Atomic Age, I imagine during the eighty mile drive from Alamogordo to Trinity Site, New Mexico, was much like today except for the early morning rain postponing the experiment from 4:00 to 5:30 a.m. Darkness filled the elongated valley bordered by mountains of hard granite, solidified lava flows and eroded mesas. The rain was undoubtedly welcomed by the sparse yet hardy vegetation decorating the valley floor. The rare summer moisture provided relief from the searing, relentless desert heat - a brief chance to rejoice and replenish moments before disappearring in an unnatural and previously unknown manner. Except for the sound of our 200 vehicle convoy headed to Ground Zero, Day One was sunny, windless and serene, just like today. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Jim Reed)</author>
					  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:27:48 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[The Butterfield Overland Mail-stitching the country together]]></title>
					  <link>http://www.southernnewmexico.com/articles/98/1/The-Butterfield-Overland-Mail-stitching-the-country-together/Page1.html</link>
					  <description><![CDATA[On a time line, the two and one-half year operation (1857-1861) of the Butterfield Overland Mail was but a  flash in the history of transportation in the United States.  But this short-lived operation captured and held the imagination of Americans because it stitched together the growing country from sea to sea. ]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Joann Mazzio)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2003 02:57:25 PDT</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Santa Rita-the town that vanished into thin air]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA["The Santa Rita is, perhaps, the most famous mine in Western America, for it was here that the techniques of copper mining were first developed in the Southwest." So wrote Carey McWilliams in his 1949 book, North From Mexico.]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (John L. Sinclair)</author>
					  <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2003 01:31:29 PST</pubDate>
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