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I Accidentally Got Lost in 1958

I Accidentally Got Lost in 1958

Colorado River Grand Junction to Moab: An Old Cowboy Kid Photographer’s Candy Store

Follow Pat down the Colorado River from Grand Junction to Moab and into the red-rock landscapes that helped create Hollywood’s American West. Travel Highway 128 through Dewey Bridge, Professor Valley, Fisher Towers and Red Cliffs Lodge while exploring Western movie history, rafting, fishing, wildlife and some of the finest riverside camping in Utah.

Climate Change: What the Data Actually Shows with Geologist Scott Tinker

Climate Change: What the Data Actually Shows with Geologist Scott Tinker

Cool Heights and Summer Hail: A Family Hike at Ski Santa Fe

Cool Heights and Summer Hail: A Family Hike at Ski Santa Fe

Sand, Screams, and the Serpent’s Tail: The Defiant Magic of Cliff’s Amusement Park in Albuquerque

Sand, Screams, and the Serpent’s Tail: The Defiant Magic of Cliff’s Amusement Park in Albuquerque

Sparking the Semiquincentennial: The Night Santa Fe Blended Pixels and Pyrotechnics

Sparking the Semiquincentennial: The Night Santa Fe Blended Pixels and Pyrotechnics

Redefining the Skyline: The Night Santa Fe Reimagined the 4th of July

Redefining the Skyline: The Night Santa Fe Reimagined the 4th of July

I Ain’t Lazy, I’m Worn Out

I Ain’t Lazy, I’m Worn Out

Target Ruins in Butler Wash Bears Ears Pocket 2

Target Ruins in Butler Wash Bears Ears

Target Ruin is an Anasazi cliff dwelling found in Upper Butler Wash on the eastern side of Comb Ridge. The hike to the Target Ruins is mostly very easy and access is simple as the trailhead is on the roadside of Utah 95. Most of the ruins, in the Upper Butler Wash...

August Thunderstorm Hero 9

August Thunderstorm

With Monsoon Season in Santa Fe winding down solitary thunderstorms are more common. A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known...

Hummingbird on Red Sage

Hummingbird on Red Sage

Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae. With about 360 species, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but the vast majority of the species are found in the tropics. They are small birds, with most species...

Horseback Trailride in the Cibola National Forest 08-05-2021 Pocket 2

Horseback Trailride in the Cibola National Forest 08-05-2021

The Cibola National Forest covers more than 1.6 million acres in New Mexico, with elevations ranging from 2,700 feet to over 11,300 feet. We have four ranger districts: Sandia, Mountainair, Magdalena, and Mt. Taylor. In addition, the Cibola has four wilderness areas:...

Butler Wash Anasazi Ruins Bears Ears National Monument Anafi

Butler Wash Anasazi Ruins Bears Ears National Monument

The Butler Wash Ruins is a widely visited Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) site located off Highway 95 southwest of Blanding, UT.The cliff dwelling features multiple habitation, storage and ceremonial structures. The Butler Wash Ruins was once a small community and it’s a...

La Gruta in the Pecos River Valley Villanueva, NM Pocket 2

La Gruta in the Pecos River Valley Villanueva, NM

Villanueva is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. Known as La Cuesta until 1890, it is located along the Pecos River and New Mexico State Road 3. Prior to 1786, when a peace treaty was concluded with...

Santa Fe Southern Railway Reborn

Santa Fe Southern Railway Reborn

New owners, local Santa Feans, are breathing new life into this famous scenic train. The summer of 2021 saw rail maintenance and a new pain job for the engines and cars. From the looks of the paint theme at the Lamy Station allot of imagination and creativity is going...

Comb Ridge

Comb Ridge June 2021

Comb Ridge is an astoundingly dramatic geological feature. The area is famous for its rock art sites, pueblo homes, rock climbing areas, San Juan river running, outstanding views for photography, camping areas, and designated routes. Comb Ridge (Tséyíkáán in Navajo)...

Shiprock West Mavic 2 Zoom

Shiprock West

Shiprock is a monadnock rising nearly 1,583 feet above the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. Its peak elevation is 7,177 feet above sea level. Shiprock Pinnacle is one of New Mexico's most iconic landmarks. This...

The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party

The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party

Did you know that the Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the KKK, and fought against every major civil rights act in U.S. history? Watch as Carol Swain, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, shares the inconvenient...

Shiprock East Mavic 2 Zoom

Shiprock East

Shiprock is a monadnock rising nearly 1,583 feet above the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. Its peak elevation is 7,177 feet above sea level. Shiprock Pinnacle is one of New Mexico's most iconic landmarks. This...

Moki Dugway Pocket 2 June 8, 2021

Moki Dugway June 8, 2021

Pueblo Indians carved shallow hand and toe holds, or Moki steps, into rock cliffs to make a near vertical climb. The Moki Dugway, also a steep climb up a hillside, was not made by Pueblo Indians, but by miners to transport uranium. The Moki Dugway (also spelled Mokee...

San Juan River at Mexican Hat, Utah Mavic 2 06-08-2021

San Juan River at Mexican Hat, Utah 06-08-2021

The San Juan River is a major tributary of the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States, providing the chief drainage for the Four Corners region of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona. Originating as snowmelt in the San Juan Mountains (part of the Rocky...

Mexican Hat and the Dust Devil Mavic 2

Mexican Hat and the Dust Devil

On an already windy day we were about to get a close up video of the Mexican Hat Rock in southern Utah when a strong dust devil threatened to take our flying camera away away! A dust devil is a strong, well-formed, and relatively short-lived whirlwind, ranging from...

San Juan River

San Juan River Fly Fishing Lodges

The San Juan River begins in Archuleta County, Colorado at the confluence of its East and West Forks. Both forks originate above elevations of 10,000 feet in the eastern San Juan Mountains in the San Juan National Forest. The river flows southwest through the...

Rio Grande Gorge Taos New Mexico

Rio Grande Gorge Taos New Mexico

Hazy summer morning panorama of the Rio Grande Gorge, Taos New Mexico and the Sangre de Christo Mountains. The Rio Grande Gorge is a geological feature in northern New Mexico where the watercourse of the Rio Grande follows a tectonic chasm. Beginning near the Colorado...