Articles Written By: Kent G. Budge

Last weekend was a bye. I spent Saturday having the rest of the new tires installed on the Wandermobile, then caught up on chores at home. This weekend the weather was absolutely gorgeous; not a cloud in the sky Thursday and none predicted Friday. With the Valles Preserve back country...Read more

I’d been talking with my friend, Steve Harris, for some time about taking his family to the rock glacier on Cerros del Abrigo. So this week we finally made concrete plans to head up and do the hike. It turned out that it was only Steve and I: His daughter...Read more

It looks like the camera is well and truly unusable. The shutter button normally is pressed in two stages; on the first stage, the camera finds the focus, and when it is pressed the rest of the way down, the actual photograph is taken. Only now, on the first stage,...Read more

I went on two wanderlusts this week, both of which were somewhat frustrating. Powerline Trail On Labor Day, the weather forecast was for a wet day, particularly in the afternoon and evening. New Mexico has a monsoon. Don’t laugh; monsoon in the weather business means a seasonal change in wind patterns...Read more

I had business in Albuquerque Friday, but was finished by noon and had brought my hiking gear. After dining at the Indian buffet on Paseo del Norte, I proceeded to Tijeras Canyon, planning to visit a lamprophyre dike along the highway I had read about. I caught a glimpse of...Read more

The Monday after getting back from vacation, I call my favorite mechanic about the leaking tire. He says to bring it on in. I do the next morning and he finds a screw in it and patches it. Time passes. Thursday Cindy reports that the low tire light is on...Read more

Day 11 may be found here. Up at the break of dawn. Bruce texts that he is on his way. It’s a long enough drive from South Fork that I decide to hike down and check out Point of Rocks in the background. There have been at least three bridges...Read more

Day 10 may be found here. The crack of dawn finds me already making breakfast. I break camp and head out to redezvous with Bruce at the turnoff to Powderhorn, which will take us on to the heart of the San Juan Mountains. The next two days will be a...Read more