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WordPress Geo Mashup Release 1.1.3
This is a minor release that includes a fix for Issue 153, where the info window would open automatically regardless of the global map option setting. You should only need to download and install this release if you are experiencing this problem.
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Santa Fe Ski Basin Powder Run
Big fat flakes keep floating down and piling up. Santa Fe doesn’t frequently get inches of snow at once in town, and the roads can stay bad when it happens. Yesterday we stayed holed up in the house, but we can’t stay couped up today. Ann decides to venture to the office, and I’ve been…
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Movie: The Women (1939)
Marriage conquers all in a flock of sharp-tongued, (dependently) wealthy New York women. No men at all in the movie. Interesting just trying to differentiate the values that it intentionally pokes fun at versus the stereotypes it embodies that seem blatant now.
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Experimental Atalaya Outing
Today’s outing is part of two experiments. One is to find good outings that are fully human powered – gasless from the doorstep. Back in 2001 I used to see how far into the Front Range I could get from my apartment in Highlands Ranch in a day on my mountain bike. Recently a Dirtbag…
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Montane Park Walk
A wind tears through Idaho Springs as if the Sasquatch and Paul Bunyun decided to have a contest to see who could blow the town down the mountain first. We’ve procured a lonely parking spot at the Indian Hot Springs Resort. We seem to be the only ones willing to pay to endure the wind…
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Teal Gallery with Sean
Sean’s first exhibition will be in the Teal Gallery in Breckenridge, Colorado. We meet him there for the pre-opening party to mark the occasion. It’s a really attractive place, with a variety of appealing art selected for the opening on December 20 (when I’m sure all the art will be hanging). I wish Sean and…
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Beeline to Datil
We crossed the Continental Divide Trail in Silver City, and today we find it again at what must surely be one of its most remote road crossings, New Mexico highway 12. We stop long enough to recall our concerns at the time, dry springs, injured feet, and the lure of Pie Town in the north.…
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Silver City and The Catwalk
Toward the end of our 2004 Continental Divide hike, we met a bike tourist named Glenn. We had exchanged a couple of emails with him since and were able to arrange a meeting for coffee and breakfast at the Yankee Street coffeehouse in Glenn’s current home of Silver City. It really is good to reconnect…
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City of Rocks State Park, NM
The drive over Emory Pass is unexpectedly twisty, slow, and beautiful. A cold rain pours down, and when we make a pitstop on the far side of the pass we find a shivering German bike tourist in the restroom! Uli is most thankful for a hot cup of coffee before he heads to his next…
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Truth or Consequences
This funky town that named itself after a 1950’s game show embodies much of what I love about New Mexico. There are soft colors, prominent mountains, desert birds, and hot springs to enjoy in a cultural setting that defies explanation. This old, struggling tourist town in the middle of a desert filled with ranches, mines,…