Monthly Archives: July 2020

This one was recommended by Sixty Hikes Within Sixty Miles: Albuquerque. I’m not super impressed with this series, which doesn’t much emphasize geology, but it has occasionally given me some very useful tips. Enough to be worth the purchase price. I wanted a hike at low elevation, because the monsoon...Read more

I mentioned in my last post that I wanted to swing by the Salitral Formation type section and some Rock Point Formation exposures on my way home from Iron Mountain, but ran out of time. I took time to make that up today. It wasn’t a perfect day; there were...Read more

This is the oldest rock I’ve visited in New Mexico; twice now. I was hoping third time would be the charm. So Saturday I loaded up and headed the Wandermobile north to the Tusas Mountains again. My goal was to try to find pillow lava structure in the Moppin Complex...Read more