Another Day, Another Mountain Pass, Another Valley

Leaving the Land Trust, I turned on the radio. The station was from Taos. Spanish speaking announcer playing rancheros. But then a pause for "noticias locales," local news and the announcer switched to English. And read a series of obituaries. Sometimes it is easy to forget how really local, local is...the names of these community members who have passed on.

After skiing at Monarch, I rode into the Arkansas Valley to Mt. Princeton Hot Springs.




This was a first visit to these large pools for swimming and for soaking. Along the creek, the hot springs bubble from under those pools and mix with the water flowing down from the snow fields of the mountain. People have created their own small pools. Snow was falling....a rare sensation to feel snow falling on the head while the hot springs warm the rest of the body.