https://pmags.com/spring-on-the-high-plains-rocky-mountain-arsenal-nwr Practical advice and musings on the outdoors, hiking, backpacking, ski touring, and camping. Thu, 19 Mar 2015 21:40:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://pmags.com/spring-on-the-high-plains-rocky-mountain-arsenal-nwr#comment-488703 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 21:40:12 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=7128#comment-488703 I love National wildlife refuges. It was Balcones Canyonlands national wildlife refuge (in the Austin, TX area) that convinced me to try backpacking. I now just finished my first backpacking trip in the Organ mountains in New Mexico, and I am hooked! NWRs are underrated treasures in our system of public lands.

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