A cold and windy winter night in the mountains outside Santa Fe, I’m drinking a Brut IPA from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. I have some hazy IPA stashed in …
Time to Close the Four Corners Generating Station
By Tom Ribe Standing on the mesas near Bandelier National Monument in about 1970 we looked across the Rio Grande Valley through a thick, often impenetrable gray smog that …
Trump Shutdown Throwing Craft Breweries for a Loop
Who knew that the craft beer industry has constant ongoing regulation from the federal government? Every brewer who sells beer across state lines knows and right now the Trump …
The Tumbling Tumbleroot
Those of us who live in, near or above Santa Fe may have noticed that Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery is bumping up the micro brewery scene in Santa Fe quite …
The Public Defeats Billionaire, Saves Wolf Creek Pass
It’s great fun to go skiing at Wolf Creek Pass and enjoy the incredible views of the wild San Juan Mountains and the landscapes far beyond. Great to hike there …
Parks Closed over Border Wall Demands
Late December 2018 finds us enjoying strong snowfall in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. The Jet Stream that abandoned us last winter is now swooping up and over us …
Exceptional Walk Through Time in the Western Jemez Mountains
New Mexico may be a flyover state to the majority of Americans and it may appear to be a vast dry wasteland to those who drive through on I-40 looking …
Just Say No to Black Friday!
This is Black Friday which somehow became the day we are all supposed to rush out and buy things in anticipation of Christmas, a holiday centered on exchanging gifts …
Oil Spill in Animas and other Oil Industry Disasters
This week, British Petroleum Corporation (BP) created an Animas River oil spill. BP has dumped oil and fraking fluids into the Animas River near Durango, Colorado. The company spilled fraking …
Thinking About the Land as Fall Colors Blaze
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 …