Taos – PMags.com https://pmags.com Practical advice and musings on the outdoors, hiking, backpacking, ski touring, and camping. Fri, 23 Aug 2019 18:52:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://pmags.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-fav-ico-160x160.jpg Taos – PMags.com https://pmags.com 32 32 81463906 New Mexico Walk: Columbine – Hondo Wilderness https://pmags.com/new-mexico-walk-columbine-hondo-wilderness https://pmags.com/new-mexico-walk-columbine-hondo-wilderness#respond Tue, 30 Aug 2016 02:41:45 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=12165 New Mexico Walk: Columbine – Hondo Wilderness

A weekend backpacking in the Columbine - Hondo Wilderness of New Mexico. Read More ...

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We can plan. But Ma Nature often decides what we end up doing for a backpacking trip. Read More ...

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A trip to the Wild Rivers Recreation Area in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. Followed by a trip to Taos. Read More ...

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]]> https://pmags.com/wild-rivers-recreation-area-rio-grande-del-norte-nm/feed 0 7654 Two years celebrated in Taos https://pmags.com/two-years-celebrated-in-taos https://pmags.com/two-years-celebrated-in-taos#respond Wed, 24 Sep 2014 05:00:26 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=6295 Two years celebrated in Taos

Our two-year wedding anniversary celebrated in Taos, NM.

I don’t take vacations.

I take trips.

My vacations usually involve hiking, skiing, climbing and sleeping outside. Instead of a Fodor’s guide, I look at a topo map.  Compass bearings direct me more so than street signs.  When I plan said trips, I don’t budget money. I budget how much food I need to pack and how much gear I have to carry.

The only exception to these types of trips are family visits. And, as much as I love my family, these are not vacations. 🙂  Even when my someone and I went to Germany to see her family, it was a family trip more so than a vacation as well.  People to see, catch up with and usually an event (such as a wedding) that the visit is centered around.

Sleeping in a comfy bed, going out to eat, relaxing and no obligations other than what someone and I decide is not something we have done in our five years together.

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