Celebrate Bike To Work Week!

Bike To Work Week Sangre de Cristo Mountain Works Join us for National Bike to Work Week. Peddle your way to clarity. Stop by and save 10% off on a water bottle. Coupon Code IBIKE2WRK

Monarch Snow Cats by Gino Penasa

Blessed with a new foot and a half of new powder and glorious Spring conditions, my friends and I embarked on our 12th snow cat trip into the wilds of the Saguache range near Monarch Pass. We skied terrain that ranged from 800-1000 vertical feet at pitches of 30-50% and managed to get in 13 runs. [...]

The Santa Fe Climbing Center Team

A few months back we did an article in our newsletter about Quincy Conway, a ten year old boy who was raising money to attend a national climbing competition. At that time Santa Fe Climbing Center had only a few climbers attending competitions. Today the team has grown to more than a dozen members. Many [...]

K2 Backside Launch Event in Santa Fe, NM. December 3rd, 2009

Hosted by K2 Women’s Alliance Member Amy Bauer and Sangre de Cristo Mountain Works of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the K2 Backside Launch is an event to stimulate excitement for and knowledge of K2’s new Backside Adventure line of men’s and women’s skis. This event will take place at Sangre de Cristo Mountain Works Thursday [...]

Fall Turns by Patrick Sinnott

When you live in New Mexico, September may be the hardest month to find turns. But just north of Santa Fe, outside Alamosa Colorado, a skier’s oasis exists year round. Recently, my wife and I headed to Colorado for some early fall  hiking.  We spent the day scrambling up Mt. Shivano, a local fourteener near [...]

Stay Found

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 benign [...]