deserteagle56
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Were you around when Salt Wells had a thriving business next to Highway 50? 40+ years ago.
TJs in beautiful places
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Lol! Oh yea, I was stationed at the EW Range 77-83. Used to drive by it and Lazy B every day. Got a few stories.
deserteagle56
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In Nevada's Dun Glen Range this afternoon.....
KennethS
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Nice! It’s getting way too hot here, gotta wait till fall for decent temperatures.
Farmboy666
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First picture near Moab and second picture near Silverton
Farmboy666
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Old pic but my wife had it framed for my office. Sun setting over the blue ridge mountains on Reddish Knob in VA.
At copper mine. And Buff the Bull. 
deserteagle56
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Working my way up to the Red Bird Mine in Nevada's Jackson Mountains.....
Mt. Lemmon AZ. Made it to the top in 2 wheel drive. Need to work this Transfer Case thing out.
We went up the highway and down the control road at the end of June. We were kind of bummed at all the fire and drought damage. Next time I want to go up the control road and down on the highway. Did you eat at the Sawmill Run?
Never ate at the saw mill. Plan was Rice Peak, but then I lost 4x4.
Did you do the hill climb halfway?
No, didn't know about any hill climb. Haven't been to Rice Peak either. Would like leave the wife home next time to explore more up there, she's not really into it a lot. What's wrong with your txfr case? Linkage?
TJs in beautiful places:
... a mini travelogue for your viewing pleasure — time to Zen-It-Up.
Spent yesterday in the northern New Mexico wilderness — traveling on the 18-mile gravel backcountry road through one of the most uniquely-grandiose preserves in the United States. As too often, photos and vids don't do it justice — I'll give it a try;
Valles Caldera National Preserve is one of those rare places on Earth where the immensity of creation elevates consciousness, humbles the psyche;
Imagine if you will a 14-mile-wide circular depression formed when a super volcano erupted 1.2 million years ago and its magma chamber collapsed — now dormant (not extinct) — reborn into a breathtaking sanctuary of life;
Surrounding the caldera, the 89,000-acre Jemez Mountains preserve begins at 8,000' and rises like a pyrogenic cathedral to 11000’+, crowned by ridges and forests of Ponderosa pine;
Before you stretches a boundless sea of grasslands and hills, rolling and golden — home to Rocky Mountain elk herds, mountain lions (Puma concolor), Mexican gray wolves (rare), black bear, mountain cottontail rabbits, coyotes — red-tail hawks, eagles, Great Blue Herons, song birds... a wildly-diverse bird species collective, many of conservation concern — and countless prairie dogs...
... meandering streams through the savanna tout brown and the scarce native Rio Grande cutthroat trout (flyrod... high priority!), all beneath a sky so limitless and blue it seems to hold eternity in its hands.
The air? Pristine. The stillness? Resounding.
Ooooh, more than a landscape I assure — it's a reminder that beauty this vast belongs not just to the earth, but to the soul that beholds it.
... a mini travelogue for your viewing pleasure — time to Zen-It-Up.
Spent yesterday in the northern New Mexico wilderness — traveling on the 18-mile gravel backcountry road through one of the most uniquely-grandiose preserves in the United States. As too often, photos and vids don't do it justice — I'll give it a try;
Valles Caldera National Preserve is one of those rare places on Earth where the immensity of creation elevates consciousness, humbles the psyche;
Imagine if you will a 14-mile-wide circular depression formed when a super volcano erupted 1.2 million years ago and its magma chamber collapsed — now dormant (not extinct) — reborn into a breathtaking sanctuary of life;
Surrounding the caldera, the 89,000-acre Jemez Mountains preserve begins at 8,000' and rises like a pyrogenic cathedral to 11000’+, crowned by ridges and forests of Ponderosa pine;
Before you stretches a boundless sea of grasslands and hills, rolling and golden — home to Rocky Mountain elk herds, mountain lions (Puma concolor), Mexican gray wolves (rare), black bear, mountain cottontail rabbits, coyotes — red-tail hawks, eagles, Great Blue Herons, song birds... a wildly-diverse bird species collective, many of conservation concern — and countless prairie dogs...
... meandering streams through the savanna tout brown and the scarce native Rio Grande cutthroat trout (flyrod... high priority!), all beneath a sky so limitless and blue it seems to hold eternity in its hands.
The air? Pristine. The stillness? Resounding.
Ooooh, more than a landscape I assure — it's a reminder that beauty this vast belongs not just to the earth, but to the soul that beholds it.
Thanks for this. I was in ABQ in June and went to the Jemez Pueblo from the ABQ side, it was late in the day so I turned around at Jemez Springs. Next time I will check out the preserve.
I have a cousin in Rio Rancho who works on the pueblo and was mainly there to visit with her. The red rocks on the pueblo are stunning but I knew there was more to see, just ran out of time. I'm supposed to be at Menaul Historical Library of the Southwest in ABQ this fall for some volunteer work relating to Ganado Mission and will try and get to the preserve. In case I don't bring my Jeep are the roads passable by car? (rental)
BTW I have a lot of ancestry in Mora and San Miguel counties and my grandmother was at the Embudo Mission school in 1921 and later at Chacon.
You sir are a splendid photographer. One question, how do you keep your Jeep so clean out in the wild?
Mine just gets all dusted up. Mount Bald 6100 ft outside Sandpoint Idaho. 8/24/25.
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