Having Fun?
JackTrout
For some reason, I find myself stuck in New Mexico. I thought, since there isn’t much fun stuff in the news just now, I’d show you some of the reasons I maybe can’t seem to leave here.
So welcome to JT’s tour of northern New Mexico!
Just a couple weeks ago, the great snowboarding season came to a close.
Sipapu (shown) is about 45 minutes from my house.
Now, we are into whitewater season. Land of my summer job, 20 minutes to the put-in for the Racecourse on the Rio Grande lower gorge (class III-IV whitewater,
with nearby float trips if you just want to chill).
And rock climbing. This is near the put-in for the Taos Box (class IV-V whitewater, about 2 hours from home)
Once the river drops, the horses get more exercise. Hire these guys
(the horses, yo) about 20 minutes drive (free for some of us).
Balloon trips are popular year round, but you gotta see the Mass Ascension at least once. This happens every October in Albuquerque (for me, a 2 hour drive).
Dress warm if you’re going up.
All this fun makes me hungry. Hatch green chile- we own it (sold everywhere locally). Goes beautifully with a Dos Equis or 6!
I like a domestic beer for a slower day. This is the Rio Pueblo,
with fine trout pools about a 30 minute drive.
Well, there’s a lot more, but I have to work. Hope you enjoyed the tour! And yeah, except for the rock climbing, I like all this stuff. Just can’t think what keeps me here.
😉
Cheers,
JT
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Maybe
Definitely.
Meanwhile here I am in boring Amsterdam
Come visit. But be warned- it's like a vortex. Sucks you in and won't let go. 🙂
So true
Nice one o/
Show us us yours?! 😮
Why not, indeed? Will try to 🙂
Ya are!
I am indeed. 😃
cheers
Cheers, mate!
So many balloons 😮
Yeah, to be there before dawn and see them all gassing up is
doh! is really incredible.
Oh, they start going up before dawn? That really must be a spectacle!
Yeah, they can't go up if there's much wind, and it's most still before sunup. One year I went and they canceled for wind at the last minute. Bummer, but I met the people on Dawn Song Ii that took me up later,so all was good. You get baptised with beer after your first assent. 🙂
*ascent, crikey!
And in the meantime, I am just in my extra warm flat with no air conditioning studying for exams 🙁
So jelly
Hang in there, mate, it won't last forever.
I know I know, just two more weeks :crying:
It's not that bad, I just wanna go to the seaside :laugh:
Nice place 🙂
Yep. Come check it out!
Voted
Cheers!
Is this an invitation??
Jumls on a plane
Why not? 🙂
Hard to imagine why you'd stay there indeed 🙂
Apart from the snowboarding (I'm a skiing guy) and horse riding (don't like horses) been there done that. Well not been there literally but seen and done all that in places like Australia, Austria, France and Italy.
To have it all within a few hours drive however.... Wow.
Yeah, that's the amazing part all right. One spring break, I went snowboarding one day and rafting the next. 😃 There is an elevation difference of over 1000 m in those couple hours. That's the ticket.
Did you ski at Mt. Kosciuszko?
Great. O7
🌹👍