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Wanderlusting the Joseph Mine

This was my first trip with the Los Alamos Geological Society. I have known about the Society for some years, having attended several of their annual Earth Treasures shows and having the temerity to link some of my blog posts at their Facebook page, but I didn’t actually pay the...Read more

No getting around it

No wanderlust last weekend. My wife was taking Kira back to college and I needed to be around for the boys. I visited with my orthopedic surgeon today. The physical therapy has loosened up my shoulder considerably, but it’s also irritated the shoulder a bit, and I still can’t raise...Read more

Wanderlusting the Cerros del Rio

My wanderlusting began some years ago, when I decided to celebrate my (mumble mumble)th birthday by going somewhere I’d been living close to most of my life, but never actually visited, as a kind of birthday adventure. That first wanderlust was to the Buckman area on the east side of...Read more

Definitely time to retire Clownie

I hate to do it. That little car and I have been through a lot together. But it’s time. Last Saturday I took Clownie down to Pojoaque for a turn at the Jiffy-Lube. I hadn’t had the oil changed in a while and it was due. Naturally I took the...Read more

About that shoulder

It looks like I won’t be doing nearly as much wanderlusting this summer as I could wish. I met with my doctor to go over the MRI results Thursday. It seems I not only have a torn rotator cuff, but I tore it in the grand style. And then waited...Read more

Wanderlusting Potrillo Canyon

The weather continues to be mild and dry, so I decided a good way to get some exercise would be to hike the Potrillo Canyon Trail. The trail head is off of State Road 4 (map), within easy walking distance of my home, and the other end of the trail...Read more

Wanderlusting the Old Front Road

I’ve known since I was a kid that there is an old switchback road forking off the modern front road to Los Alamos, opposite the Clinton P. Anderson overlook. The road has long been closed, with both barbed wire and a boulder-encrusted berm blocking vehicular access, but there’s no prohibition...Read more

Spring

To be sure, this is one of the drier, sunnier corners of my yard, and much of the rest still has snow on the ground. Anyway, most of the forest roads in the Jemez won’t open until April 15, and the whole area still still muddy where it isn’t snowy....Read more
Wanderlusting Cabra Canyon

Wanderlusting Cabra Canyon

Although the weather was beginning to deteriorate, I had some time, I needed some exercise, and I figured Cabra Canyon would not yet be snowy and muddy from winter weather. I’d scouted the area earlier and it looked like there was a really impressive exposure of the Cerro Toledo Interval...Read more
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