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Ski Run Road. Photo by Frederick Mora
Ski Run Road.  Photo by Frederick Mora

Snow Country magazine called Ruidoso, New Mexico’s Ski Run Road “a 15-mile corkscrew with precious few guardrails.” Well, it’s actually only a little more than 12 miles up to Ski Apache (sometimes it just feels like more) and hey – there are more guardrails than there used to be.

“In the early 70s there were none,” Ski Apache General Manager Roy Parker said.

The potholes are gone, thanks to a $1 million resurfacing project. But old-timers remember the early days when it was a dirt road all the way to the top.

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Picacho Post Office

Would you like to go to a place where people know your name, where you can visit with friends and neighbors while keeping in touch with what’s happening around the world and down the street?

Folks living in rural New Mexico do that every day, just by going to the post office.

In a place like Weed, or Claunch, or Ponderosa, the post office is more than a place to buy a stamp.

“How’s your dad’s hay crop coming along?” Diana Clark, Ponderosa’s postmaster, asked a customer, a young woman with a spout of curly blond hair on the top of her head.

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All about Hummingbirds

by LynKidder January 1, 2003 Wild Life

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A “glittering fragment of the rainbow” is how Aububon described the hummingbird. Part of summer in New Mexico is being dazzled and entertained by the antics of these little feathered bits of airborne jewelry.
Hummingbirds have the best of both worlds, spending the winter in Mexico and Central America and heading north for [...]

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The Old Dowlin Mill

by LynKidder December 21, 2002 Lincoln County

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The Old Dowlin Mill in Ruidoso, New Mexico Photo by Frederic Moras

 

The sound of water cascading over the immense wooden wheel is sometimes barely audible over the traffic on Ruidoso’s main street. But the wheel turns as steadily as it did more than a century ago. [...]

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