This time of year is excellent for exploring a winter wonderland practically in your own backyard. Grab your snowshoes and head up to the north side of Big Tesuque or Raven’s Ridge. There you will find plenty of the untrodden fluffy stuff. If you look closely in these meadows you will find the tracks of [...]
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Skiing in the backcountry is becoming a hot ticket in today’s modern ski world. As more areas open up the gates and allow skiers to access the back country at there own risk, interest is peaking and inevitably there are more tracks out back than I have ever seen before. Skiing in the back-country offers [...]
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Genuine Guide Gear raises the bar in 2009 with the introduction of a new AT Tech binding that improves on the lightweight benefits of the existing TECH binding market. The new ONYX tech from G3 is a lightweight , high performance Alpine Touring binding with a design focused towards reliability and like most Genuine Guide [...]
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I’m sure that most of the skiers in the Santa Fe area have noticed that there’s snow on the hill. A lucky (and industrious) few have already gone out and made their first turns of the season and the rest of us are eagerly anticipating our first runs. At some point, we’re all going to [...]
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With the nights getting cooler and summer slowly making its exit for another year, our minds naturally start to drift like the snow towards the ski season ahead. The early season prediction on the street is that we are setting up for an El Nino year which we hope will bring a season of leg [...]
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Dear SDC Mountain Works,
Please find my photograph attached. It’s me dropping a knee at Portillo, Chile. I actually reside in New York, NY. However, I’ve got family in Santa Fe and don’t miss an opportunity every time I’m in town to build up my stock in gear at simply the greatest outdoor store in America! [...]
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If you didn’t know me and saw me on the trail two things would come to mind; how bright and color coordinated I appeared and how much of what I carried was designated for my chocolate lab. Besides being hopelessly color aware and obsessive compulsive about my own gear, the undying and rather dopey affection [...]
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Lightning – A Shocking Development in the Outdoors Ideally all our summer hiking, riding, fishing and climbing would take place under clear blue skies, but that’s not always possible in the Rockies and especially in New Mexico during the monsoon season. It’s bad enough for us that monsoon thunderstorms often bring drenching [...]
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These are really cool ski jumping photos.
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Santa Fe is a beautiful place with tons of easy access to the back country via many trail heads littered all around the Santa Fe area. While we have one of the countries most extensive urban access wilderness playgrounds this easy access often means ” it is easy to get in trouble”. Often the [...]
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