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Mogollon — off the beaten path

by DrusillaClaridge January 11, 2003 Catron County

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Flatlanders need not apply. The road to Mogollon, known as the Bursum Road, climbs 2,080 feet from the San Francisco River Valley to the old ghost town, nestled in the Mogollon Mountains. “That doesn’t sound so bad,” you might say, but the climb is seven miles in length – over 2,000 feet [...]

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March — a month of motion in Southwest New Mexico

by AnneSullivan January 10, 2003 Catron County

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The view from Balwin Cabin Public Library in Datil. Photo by Anne Sullivan.

March, whether lionish or lambish, is a month of motion in upper Southwest New Mexico. Snowbirds from Minnesota and Michigan crowd U.S. 60 with their fat motorhomes, heading back north from the sun-burnt winter in [...]

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January in Datil’s Swingle Canyon – an exercise in cold

by AnneSullivan January 9, 2003 Catron County

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Near the author’s home in Swingle Canyon.

January, the start of a new year, a new century, a new millennium. A year, a blank slate in which the furnace hasn’t yet broken, the road hasn’t mudded out, the chimney hasn’t caught fire, the pump hasn’t quit. All these joys of winter [...]

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Frisco Box — true canyoneering

by SharmanAptRussell January 9, 2003 Catron County

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Canyon pool Photo by Carla DeMarco.

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 [...]

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Big Rock in the Gila — through the seasons, through the years

by GarySmith January 5, 2003 Catron County

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The author’s son, on a 1998 trip to Big Rock. Photo by Gary Smith

I think Big Rock is on Gilita Creek, though I’ve never really looked at a map, maybe five miles or so downstream from the Gilita campgrounds. The trail always appears to be well beaten, [...]

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Beating the Winter Blahs – the Lake Roberts way

by PamHendrickson January 5, 2003 Catron County

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Lake Roberts in the winter.

Ever get the "winter blahs?" It is a state of mind that strikes around mid-January, then reaches its peak in the middle of March. Here at Lake Roberts it doesn’t normally end until we see the first greening of trees and smell the warm [...]

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Bat Caving on the Plains of San Agustin

by LeonardPadilla January 5, 2003 Catron County

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View from Bat Cave, overlooking the Plains of San Agustin.

It is just before noon. Heat waves, generated on what is later reported to be the hottest day of the year, rise above the Plains of San Agustin. On a earlier trip to Bat Cave, wind and dust [...]

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A Straw Bale House in Datil, New Mexico — positive, low cost construction

by CarolPittman January 3, 2003 Catron County

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The Kanely strawbale house in Datil, New Mexico.

Alternative life style, alternative housing:  Close your eyes and the picture you conjure up will probably be Venice Beach, Southern California, 1972.
But this is the 90s. Alternative housing has moved east. As a matter of interest, there are several examples in New [...]

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Mogollon — a seven mile-high ghost town

by JoannMazzio January 1, 2003 Catron County

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The ghost town of Mogollon, New Mexico. Photo by Carla DeMarco.

The Mogollon mines were located on precipitous slopes and ridges. In 1909, the proud miners announced nearly 70% of the precious metal of New Mexico was produced by the mines of Mogollon, and this amounted to $5,500,000 From [...]

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Luna — holding on to history

by PhyllisEileenBanks December 30, 2002 Catron County

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Luna, New Mexico. Photo by Phyllis Eileen Banks

Just eight miles from the Arizona border on U.S. Highway 180 is the small mountain village of Luna, New Mexico on the San Francisco River. This area was in the vast sheep ranching realm of Don Solomon Luna in the 19th [...]

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