Sodden fall in New Mexico and southern Colorado. While Donald Trump is hyperventilating and bloviating about refugees from Guatemala marching toward his fragile little world, we are wearing rain gear …
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Key Environmental Issues in New Mexico Governor’s Race
This November we chose a new governor in New Mexico. After eight years of population decline and economic stagnation under Suzanna Martinez, we have a chance to change course. The …
Why Fall Colors? What’s Going On?
Fall is a time when we can hear melancholy songs in our minds as the wind grows cold and leaves rain down from the trees. Maybe the moments of …
Huge Collapsed Volcanos Host Dangerous Animals
Rocky Mountain Beer Explorer sent our top reporter to Yellowstone National Park in early September to check on the other major caldera in the West. While its easy to be …
Great American Beer Festival Sparks up Denver
This week Denver hosts the Great American Beer Festival, which has turned in to one of the largest craft beer meetings in the country. This year 800 breweries from all …
Four Corners Folk Festival, a Regional Treasure
One of the things that really sets northern New Mexico and Southwest Colorado apart is our relative isolation. Southern Colorado is too far away from the bustle of exploding Denver …
Cross the Rockies by Trail Above Santa Fe; Incredible Hike
My 25 year old niece joined us for the beginning two miles of our annual “up and over” hike from the Santa Fe Ski Basin to the Winsor trailhead in …
Fundraiser at Fire and Hops Aug 22…Good Beer
Fire and Hops, that little brewpub on North Guadalupe in Santa Fe is raising money for the Forest Guild Wednesday August 22. From 5 to 10 at night. Fire and …
Hazy IPA Sweeping the Country
The team here at Rocky Mountain Beer Explorer has always been fond of IPAs among all the beer styles we’ve tried all over the country. Recently we’ve found the regionally …
Nowhere More Beautiful: The San Juan Loop
Leaving the low country and heading into the high country means sensory overload, pleasure, bliss, extreme exercise, danger, possibility of hypothermia, nudity, clinging to rocks with toes and fingertips and …