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[Barko1]

From City of Rocks you are very close to the Gila Cliff Dwellings, camping next to the river before you hit the park, and hot springs.


And Lake Robert in th Gila NF is right between City of Rocks and Gila Cliff Dwellings.

[brett13]

I thought the snowpack up north was good this year. Not so?

It was until early Feb. I haven't gotten a snow report email from Taos in at least 3 weeks. It's been warm there too.

Are you an astronomer?

[highz]

Are you an astronomer?

Yes. I'm lucky in that I'm attached to a project at the observatory rather than at a university, so I can live in the Lincoln NF. I work for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The "highz" handle means "high redshift" or "high altitude", not that I'm always high...

Now a note for master brew hound. I followed all the DV trip reports and enjoyed them, but realized that I need to see what brewpubs are around for your southern NM trip. In my area there's nothing that I know of. Sad eh? But I found this in Silver City:

http://www.swnmbeer.com

Haven't been there or tried any of their brews, so I can't review it for you. I'm afraid I'm not a connoisseur anyway. If you go there, let me know if it's any good.

Maybe Barko1 can chime in on what's good in the Cruces area?

[Barko1]

High Desert Brewing on Hadley, off Valley on the N end of Las Cruces. Has been around awhile but hasn't been on my agenda. Seems to get good reviews.