I took off at 1 minute after civil twilight on a 3.8 hr flight to Angel Fire, CO. First stop was an early morning flight over the Sandia Moutains, then over to Sante Fe Baldy, at the southern end of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. From here I hopped...
Paul and I took a long 5.1 hour flight over the Jemez Mountains on July 13, 2017. We had perfect calm winds for the flight and on the way to Jemez we made a pass over the "Vents". These are some amazing travertine springs near the Jemez Caldera....
West of the Rio Puerco, near Mt Taylor is La Ventana Mesa with a maze of canyons connected by windows eroded in the sandstone. I first "discovered" these windows about a year ago in September 2016. When I overlayed my GPS track over topo maps, I saw...
Paul and I flew from Belen to Murrow Field on the Divide (NM99), a beautiful backcountry strip on Rol Murrow's ranch in northern New Mexico. We were trashed high winds and rotors coming off of Mt Taylor. They were strong enough that I made...