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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Hannett’s Joke ........................................................................5Sailplanes ................................................................................8Pinto Bean Fiesta ....................................................................9Wildlife West Nature Park ...................................................10Single Action Shooting Society ...........................................12Tijeras Pueblo ......................................................................14Salt Missions Trails ...............................................................16Manzano Mountains .............................................................18

Rodeo Roundup ....................................................................20Salinas National Monument ................................................22Sunower Festival .................................................................23Manzano Mountain Arts ......................................................26Mountain Villages ................................................................27Tinkertown ...........................................................................28Paa-Ko Ridge Golf ................................................................29

Punkin Chunkin ...................................................................30Agriculture ............................................................................32Estancia .................................................................................32Sandia Mountains .................................................................34Turquoise Trail Communities ..............................................36Turquoise Trail .....................................................................37Sandia Ski Area ....................................................................38Snowshow Racing .................................................................39Madrid ...................................................................................40Plenty to See, Plenty to Do ..................................................42On the Web ..........................................................................44

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ExploreT h e E a s t M o u n t a i n s & E s t a n c i a V a l l e y

When Gov. A. T. Hannett lost his bidfor re-election to the New MexicoStatehouse in November 1926, he

was furious, so much so (or so the storygoes), that he immediately set out to seek revenge.

At the time, Route 66 had not been builtin central New Mexico, but plans called for an alignment that followed the Old Pecos

Trail north from Santa Rosa to Santa Fe, thenlooping south over La Bajada and down intoAlbuquerque. The governor, to get back atSanta Fe politicians who he felt had betrayedhim, reportedly drew a straight line on themap from Santa Rosa to Albuquerque anddecreed that that was where and how the roadwould be built. Not only would the new pathcut 90 miles off the east-west drive, it would

free motorists from the perils of the notori-ously dangerous La Bajada. But perhapsmore importantly, it would also deprive theSanta Fe business allies of those damnablestate politicians of any and all money travel-ers might spend.

That winter, in the two months betweenthe election and the swearing-in of the newgovernor, Hannett managed to build an entirenew stretch of road between Santa Rosa and

Albuquerque, leaving Santa Fe and its politi-cians high and dry.

Although the road was essentially a dirttrail, just as the recently designated Route 66road that curled up to Santa Fe, people tryingto save time getting to Albuquerque startedusing the new road.

In 1937, when the federal government waslooking to put down asphalt on the unpaved

portions of Route 66 in New Mexico,Hannett’s hastily constructed road had thehigher use, and thus the Mother Road was

realigned through the Estancia Valley and

East Mountains.It took more than a decade, but Hannettfinally had the last laugh.

For more than 40 years, Route 66 winded

through the area and became a legend cel-ebrated in books, movies, songs and televi-

Hannett’s Joke Becomes Retribution Road

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A Route 66 curio shop now stands empty just east of Moriarty, bypassed by

Interstate 40.

The Whiting Bros. gas station in Moriarty is the only one of its kind to still be operat-

ing in the country. Next to it is the Sunset Motel, an original Route 66 motor inn.

Route 66 alignmentthrough the areacame about throughpolitical maneuvers

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The Estancia Valley is known around New Mexico for its pinto beans, pumpkins and friendly folks.

But the area has a much wider reputa-tion for something else: soaring.

A convergence of factors has made thevalley, and Moriarty in particular, an inter-nationally known center for this pastime.

All day long in the summer, and oftenfor much of the rest of the year, tow planescan be heard pulling the silent aircraft intothe sky. When local residents hear this,they often look skyward and wait for thequiet birds to be released on the long andwinding trip back to Earth.

The cool nights and warm days in thevalley create a desert thermal that givesanything with wings a nice lift.

The Moriarty Municipal Airport serves

as the base for glider enthusiasts from far and wide. On nearly any day visitors canride out to the airport and watch as thegliders line up for their turn to be towedaloft.

With the construction of a new cross-winds runway, the airport is seeing moreactivity. In 2013, the airport will host the

Soaring Society of America Region 9Super Regional Sailplane Race from June3 to June 8. Also, a Vintage Sailplane meetwill be held Aug. 31 to Sept. 2.

Sundance Aviation at the MoriartyAirport offers glider rides to the public.

Folks who have been soaring over thearea in gliders for the past 30 years thoughtMoriarty would also be the perfect placefor a museum celebrating free flight, and

they set out to build it.

The Southwest Soaring Museumopened its doors at the Moriarty MunicipalAirport in 1996, only the second museumof its type in the country.

The Moriarty museum collectionincludes several rare sailplanes such as aHummingbird motorglider designed and built by noted aircraft designer Ted Nelson

in 1954. The glider is a progenitor of mod-ern gliders, is one of only about 20 Nelson built.

One goal of the museum, Applebaysaid, is showing people — and especiallychildren — the progression of glider tech-nology over the last 100 years.

For more information, contact themuseum at 832-9222 or 832-0755, or visitthe Web site at www.swsoaringmuseum.

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Moriarty Home Gives a Lift to Sailplanes

The air currents in the Estancia Valley make Moriarty an ideal place for soaring.

Established in 1887 and named for an original homesteader. Settlerswere dryland farmers, but today you see pivot irrigation rigs andalfalfa, feed corn, wheat, pinto beans, pumpkins and other crops.

The New Mexico Central depot was completed in 1903, and traces of theold railroad bed remain. Moriarty has a museum, 212 motel rooms, 10restaurants and two truck stops. The Albuquerque Soaring Club is based atthe Moriarty airport.

The city is named after Michael Moriarty who stopped on his way toCalifornia and never left. Moriarty is known for housing stranded Interstate40 motorists in winter.

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If you’ve never been to

Moriarty in October, youdon’t know beans.Residents of the Estancia

Valley do. Pinto beans werea huge cash crop for the val-ley in the early 20th century,and Mountainair was known asthe Pinto Bean Capital of theWorld.

Bean crops in the EstanciaValley aren’t as extensive todayas they once were. Seventy yearsago, beans were planted on doz-ens of farms from Stanley toClaunch. Now, according toU.S. Department of Agriculturefigures, less than 1,000 acres in New Mexico are dedicated togrowing pinto beans - most of

that in the Estancia Valley.Residents from throughout

the valley and beyond cometogether in Moriarty each fallto celebrate the area’s relation-ship with the local legume atthe annual Moriarty Pinto BeanFiesta.

The bean fiesta will take

place on Oct. 12 in 2013.Festivities start with a pan-cake breakfast at the City Park and generally include fun runs,a pinto bean cookoff, music,games, a rodeo and a parade —

all to remind everyone of the

important role the pinto beanhas played in the valley.

A large grassy area at CityPark is ringed with booths sell-ing everything from arts andcrafts to food as a day-long line-up of bands entertains the tradi-tionally large crowds. Childrencan enjoy the new playground

area, and nearby ballfields areusually in use too.

The Estancia Valley was the primary pinto bean source for the rest of the country beforedrought and a falling marketnearly destroyed bean farmingin the valley during the 1950s.

Local farmers say Estancia

Valley pinto beans are higher in quality that most other pinto beans because of New Mexico’sdry climate and the high alti-tude.

Because of those qualities,local farmers say they don’thave to go looking for a marketto sell their beans — the market

comes to them, and usually dur-ing the Pinto Bean Fiesta.For more information on

the Pinto Bean Fiesta, con-tact the Moriarty Chamber of Commerce at 832-4087.

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Wildlife West Nature Park is a high-desertanimal preserve and music hot spot alongRoute 66 in Edgewood.

It’s the central New Mexico home of rescuednative wildlife, a venue for summer music festivalsand 122 acres of accessible nature trails that leadvisitors on a fun and educational adventure.

Twenty-four species of wildlife and raptors callWildlife West Nature Park their home — cougars,wolves, a black bear, fox, pronghorn, javelina,hawks and more.

They all have names and they all have stories.Hobo, an American kestrel, was found living with

a homeless man; Forrest, a grey fox, lost his parentsand was found in a boxcar along railroad tracks insouthern New Mexico.

Other animals that have joined the WildlifeWest family include a grey fox, two crested cara-caras (Mexico’s national bird seen occasionally in New Mexico), a bear and a coati, which is a rela-tive of the raccoon and is sometimes known as asnookum bear.

One of the biggest draws for the park is it’sMexican gray wolves, said Roger Alink, who

Getting In Tune WithNature at Wildlife West

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Wildlife WestNature Park WHEN: Daily hours 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. dur-ing daylight-saving season; noon to 4 p.m.during winter.WHERE: Edgewood, I-40 Exit 187. Onthe north side of the interstate, take thefrontage road about a mile west to the park

entrance.HOW MUCH: Self-guided tours are $7adults, $6 seniors, $4 students and seniors,free to children under 5.INFORMATION: www.wildlifewest.org orcall 281-7655.

Lions, tigers and bears; oh my! OK, so Wildlife West Nature Park doesn’t haveany tigers, but there is still plenty to see and do without making Dorothy sur-

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founded the park.“We’re dedicated to helping the

wolves,” Alink said.If you are more into the feline than the

canine, the park also has couple of big

cougars.Animals are the main attraction at the

park, but it also plays host to many other activities.

In addition to the sometimes regal,mostly furry and often entertaining crea-tures at Wildlife West, the park hosts aregular calendar of events including sun-set barbecue chuckwagon dinners, west-

ern music concerts, bluegrass festivals,melodrama and play performances, junior zookeeper day camps, hayrides, disk golf course and more. All events take place atthe park’s large all-weather amphitheater or in the restored western barn.

Winter, summer, spring or fall,Wildlife West Nature Park changes withthe seasons, but remains beautiful year ‘round with picnic areas, free dry camp-

ing and the covered amphitheater avail-able for family events and company par-ties.

For more information go to www.wildlifewest.org.

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Taste the Old West Whenthe Sun Goes Down

Chuckwagon dinners are a westerntradition, according to Roger Alink,founder of Wildlife West Nature Park.

He said the tradition goes back to thefinal meal of the day for cattle drivers.

“Chuckwagon is typically a barbecuemean feast kind of thing,” Alink said.“Out on the prairie, they had wagonswith a chuckbox where Cookie keptflour and stuff to prepare the meal.”

The wagons would circle, a fire was built, a cow butchered and cowboy songswere sung before dinner was served.

Wildlife West is keeping a versionof that tradition alive with its chuck-wagon dinners, where barbecue beef,chicken, baked potatoes, beans, applesauce, dinner roll, coffee, lemonade,water, and cookies are all part of the

menu. Vegetarian options are also avail-able. There is also usually a falcon flightor wildlife presentation before dinner and the teenagers who work at the park

through a Youth Conservation Corpsgrant put on a puppet show with animal puppets. The show during the chuck-wagon dinners is live western or blue-grass music and will feature Holy Water & Whiskey as well as the Buckarettes.

“If you come at 5:30 it’s nonstopentertainment until 9 p.m.,” Alink said.

For 2013, the chuckwagon dinner runs 7-9 p.m. every Saturday night from

June 15 through Aug. 31 and includesa foot-stomping slate of live westernmusic performances. Ticket prices for adults are $25 each; seniors, $23; chil-dren ages 5-11, $12; and kids under 5 arefree. The park can serve 500 people andthe dinners are catered, so reservationsare required by 2 p.m. the day of thedinner. Prices include admission to the

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Single Action Shooting Society members are livingin a fantasy world. It’s a world that will open to the public for the final days of SASS’s End of Trail,

the society’s largest shooting competition.End of Trail will be held in 2013 from June 22through June 30, with the public invited to come outstarting on June 28.

Modeled after a cowboy party, what could have beenthe celebration at the end of a cattle drive in the late1800s, End of Trail also is a big celebration of the OldWest that is going on outside of Edgewood. This year will mark the 32nd anniversary of End of Trail.

It marks a chance to see live gun twirling, knife

throwing, Western shootout re-enactments and somelive buffalo that wander Founders Ranch. The ranch isa sprawling 480-acre property whose most prominentfeatures are its clapboard storefronts and the gun-totingcowboys committed to the fantasy.

Getting there takes a short drive down a hilly, ruralroad outside of Edgewood, a few turns and a descentinto a bowl that shuts out the modern world for morethan 1,000 participants, most of them in authentic

Western gear from the late 1800s and early 1900s.Stepping into another world is certainly part of thedraw for Travis Boggus of Moriarty.

Every week or two, Boggus slings guns and knocksdown targets, pitting his fast draw against the abilities of others in timed shooting matches.

Boggus said he also steps into the character of “BoggusDeal,” a man from the Wild West who likes to dress infine clothes and has been known to play cards on occa-sion.

The Old West Comes Alive During End of Trail

The fun for competitors at End of Trail is the shooting contests. The event will

feature several new events in 2013, including a quick draw competition.

The 1937 rerouting of Route 66 (to east-west here)

caused the growth of areas like Edgewood,

which became New Mexico’s newest incorpo-

rated town in 1999. Business along 66, a quarter-mile

south of I-40, and N.M. 344 include a supermarket,

drug store, restaurants, a 100-unit RV park, local

crafts and a car dealership. North of the freeway, a

Walmart Superstore was built several years ago.

This community 20 miles east of Albuquerque was

known as Barton and Venus. It is located at the edge of

wooded hills, where the grassy plains to the east meet

the forested Sandia Mountains to the west.

Getting Around Edgewood

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Boggus has been a cowboy shooter for 7½ years, he said, and is still building up hisalter-ego.

“I get all dressed up,” he said. “It’s a fan-tasy game that we play. It’s a great way to getout of the daily grind.”

He also has a working cowboy costume — something simple for most of the shoot-ing matches or a buffalo chip toss, one of theshooting society’s more colorful side events — but he seems to favor his fancy, Victoriangambler duds and top hat.

His costuming is mild compared withsome, though.

“I’m more about the shooting,” he said.Visitors also can get a taste of the sport

that Boggus is so fond of at the event.There will be a few cowboy action guns,

the kind where you have to thumb back thehammer, on display for visitors to crack off a shot or two. They can also try their handat another attraction — an old-fashionedshooting gallery from the 1950s, complete

with .22 rifle and moving lead ducks andother targets.One of the attractions for local people,

even those who don’t shoot, is sure to bethe Wild West shows, put on Professor

Farquar’s Great American Medicine Showand Derringers and Daggers. But that’s notall that’s available for entertainment. TheBelle Union Saloon at the ranch proudly presents a brand new and exciting eveningsfull of entertainment, costumes and prizesgalore. Join the World Famous Handlebar Bob on Friday evening as he emcees anevening’s activities, which include greatentertainment, a variety show, free frozen

Margaritas, and fantastic raffles and give-aways to benefit the SASS Scholarship foun-dation. This evening’s program also stagesthe END of TRAIL Saloon Girl and Parlor House Madam Costume Contests, where theladies compete for top honors and awards in

a flurry of feathery boas and fine flattery.Through the day, visitors can also ride a

stagecoach drawn by four horses; they can pet the ranch’s two black-and-white babylonghorns named Skunky and Bandit; or thekids can ride a full-grown longhorn. Therealso will also be trick rope work, gun twirl-ers, country and western singers, and Dutchoven cooking demonstrations.

It’s one of the largest events of its kind,according to Tom Hewitt, a vendor in pastyears.

“There’s lots of entertainment. This isthe granddaddy cowboy shoot,” Hewitt said.

The event will be held at Founder’sRanch, which is southwest of Edgewood.To get there, take Old Route 66 to N.M. 217and go south. Turn east on Juan Tomas Roadand go to Barton Road, then follow the signs.For more information about events, fees andmore, go to www.sassnet.com or call Misty“Misty Moonshine” Miller at 843-1320.

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Because of its location between two mountainranges, Tijeras has long

been at a crossroads.

Tijeras Pueblo was one of a handful of destinations for thousands of pueblo dwellerswhen they mysteriously desert-ed the sophisticated pueblo cit-ies of the Four Corners region,such as Mesa Verde.

Tijeras Pueblo was inhabitedfrom about 1300 to about 1425A.D., and probably had hun-

dreds of residents at its peak.There is evidence of a block

of 300 rooms, a great kiva and a

smaller one with a mosaic floor, both for ceremonial purposes.

Tijeras Pueblo is considereda rare example of a Classic

Period settlement. The archi-tecture and layout of the villageare considered pure, uncom- promised by development from periods after it was abandoned,including the arrival of theSpanish conquistadors.

Because of its largely undis-turbed state, Tijeras Pueblo isconsidered by the National Park

Service to be of the highestlevel of national significanceto understanding prehistory

in the United States. TijerasPueblo Archaeological Site wasnamed to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

These days, the site istended by the park service anda group of dedicated volun-teers, the Friends of the TijerasPueblo. An interpretive center was recently completed and theorganization sponsors manylectures on site.

In addition, the pueblo brags a garden that was planted

using the techniques employed by ancient settlers. Now, theFriends use the garden and the

center as part of their educa-tion program, which includesguided site tours, classroomoutreach, lectures, field trips,

summer workshops and dem-onstrations and participation incommunity events.

Archaeological evidenceindicates that Tijeras Pueblowas partially abandoned after A.D. 1368. Many families leftthe community, and for about20 years the pueblo remainedrelatively empty. A second

phase of construction began in

Ancient Pueblo Thrived in Tijeras

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The Tijeras Pueblo was inhabited from about 1300 to 1425. Although the pueblo was excavated and reburied, there is a model at

the site as to what the pueblo would have looked like.



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1390. By A.D. 1425, the people of Tijeras hadmoved on.

Some pieces of the Tijeras Pueblo puzzlewere solved during excavations conductedover the years by the state of New Mexicoand the Albuquerque Archaeological Society.

The University of New MexicoArchaeological Field School returned toTijeras Pueblo to conduct extensive excava-tions from 1971 to 1976.

Today a large grass-covered mound is theonly visible evidence of the 200-plus-room pueblo. After excavation, the ruins werereburied to protect the site from destruction

by wind, rain and other forces.Tijeras Pueblo is located behind the

Sandia Ranger District office on N.M. 337,a half-mile south of Interstate 40 in Tijeras.

The self-guided trail is open to the publicfrom 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 8:30 a.m.to 5 p.m. on weekends.

The trail begins at the ranger station andis approximately one-third of a mile long. Itis an easy trail and is mostly accessible towheelchairs.

The Friends of Tijeras Pueblo also has aWeb site at www.friendsoftijeraspueblo.org.

Getting Around

TIJERASThe Tijeras passage,

between the Sandia andManzano Mountains, was theAnasazi gateway to the RioGrande Valley.

In 1819, Albuquerque fami-lies settled in the area, and by the mid 1930s, Tijeras wasone of the primary populationcenters on the east side of theSandia Mountains. The villageof Tijeras was incorporated in1973.

The village is the southernterminus for the TurquoiseTrail. The village is home tothe Tijeras Historic Church and

a veterans’ memorial.

The New Mexico Territorial Band plays

a couple of songs at the Fourth of July

celebration at Tijeras’ park and veteran’smemorial.

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Although you can’t see the dry saltlakes from N.M. 41, you can almostsense that they lie to the east. On an

especially windy day, the salt dust kicks upand you can taste it in the air.

The salt lakes were important from thetime that humans first made New Mexicohome. The Indians of the early pueblosused to make long pilgrimages to the lakeson foot as a religious ceremony. The TiguaIndians did not consider the salt as prop-

erty of any one tribe but the divine gift of Salt Old Woman (the salt mother) who gaveherself freely to the Indians who came toseek salt.

When the Spanish arrived, the lakescontinued to give its bounty freely. Saltwas important to these early people, espe-cially as a preservative, but also for usesin mining.

Eventually, though, claims were madeto the salt lakes and mining of the mineralwent into production, Several companiesmade good money in the lakes, but by

the 1970s, production of salt had movedelsewhere.

What we have left is the Salt MissionsTrails, a series of roads used throughout

history to move the salt. From the lakesnorth and south is now N.M. 41. On thenorth, the road meets with Old Route66 and took salt both east and west, butmostly toward Albuquerque in the west.

To the south, N.M. 41 meets withU.S. 60, a route to Mountainair, Abo andBelen. At Mountainair, N.M. 337 goesnorth to Tijeras, where traders took salt tothe mountain communities and missions.

The Salt Missions Trails were named a New Mexico Scenic and Historic Bywayin 1994 and today, visitors can travel the140 mile loop to visit pueblo missions,old farming towns and the “Mother of allroads.”

And while salt doesn’t have the impor-tance it once did, the Salt Missions Trailsstill offer an unequaled beauty to resi-

dents and visitors alike. It offers sweeping plains and forested mountains as well as brilliant sunsets and joyous sunrises.

And it offers a look at what we used to be and what we are now.

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Sunday10:00 am & 6:00 pm

2½ miles west of Moriarty on Old 66

832-6320

The EdgeContemporary

Community of Faith

Meet at Napa Store1 Eunice Ct.

Edgewood, NM

Saturday 6:30 pm301-4100

BETHEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

2700 Old Hwy. 66 (1 ½ miles west of Moriarty)

832-4200

Sunday School 9:30am Worship 10:30am

Nursery Provided (Children’s Worship)

“Large enough to service, small enough to accommodate”

Church of theHOLY CROSS

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Church in Edgewood

We Welcome Everyone • God’s Table is Open to All

Sunday Services8 a.m. & 10 a.m.Sunday School

10 a.m.

367 State Hwy 344 at Ranch Road

505-281-7722

www.HolyCrossNM.org

Stanley Union Church Non-DenominationalA Bible Believing Church

www.stanleyunion.blogspot.com

Pastor John Nash& Ginger Nash14 Kinsell Avenue West

Stanley, New Mexico 87056

505-832-2517505-832-4325

Sunday School 10 a.m. • Worship Service 11 a.m.

405 Center Ave. (next to Bethel Storehouse) Moriarty, New Mexico

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Sun. 11am • Every other Sunday potluck Lunch

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The leaves tell the story: Either theGreat Bear has been killed, or night-time temperatures have approached

freezing in the Manzano and Sandia moun-tain ranges, painting their trees for fall.

American Indian lore says some leaves

turn red when celestial hunters kill theGreat Bear and its blood drips from thesky. The bear’s fat, splattering from thekettle cooking the meat, turns other leavesyellow.

Scientists say chemical processes in thetrees, combined with just the right weather conditions, bring on the transformation.

Whichever you believe, both cause andeffect are miraculous and well worth a dayof hiking, whether it’s fall or not.

Forest rangers and longtime residentssay the best places to see fall foliage inthe East Mountains are on trails near theFourth of July Canyon campground inthe Manzano Mountains. (Specifically, theFourth of July Canyon Trail, AlbuquerqueTrail, Spring Loop and Crimson MapleTrail are recommended.)

North of the Manzano Mountains, theSandia Mountains offer plenty of natureto experience. Trailheads are marked withsigns along N.M. 536, the road to the crest.

Each mountain range is its own box of crayons.

The Manzanos are famous for the fieryorange and crimson canopies of the big-tooth maples, not found in the Sandias.

The Manzanos officially start westof Chilili and stretch 20 miles south toMountainair. Lower, rounded peaks calledthe Manzanitas, just south of TijerasCanyon, are mostly within the boundar-ies of Kirtland Air Force Base and IsletaPueblo.

Camping is allowed in the Manzanos atFourth of July, Bosque Trail Head, alongFR 55 south of Fourth of July and Red

Canyon. Dispersed camping is also permit-ted in areas not closed for emergency firerehabilitation. Manzano State Park is also

open for camping.Three major fires raged through the

Manzanos in 2008, burning 25,000 acresof forest. As a result, many trails andcampgrounds were under full or partialclosings. The Ranger District is workinghard to re-open as many trails as pos-sible so it’s best to contact the Mountainair

Ranger District before setting out.Although there are plenty of similarities between the Sandias and Manzanos, the

Manzanos’ flora is more varied and exoticthan that of the Sandias; the trails leadingup to the long, flat Manzano ridgeline tendto be shorter and gentler than comparableroutes in the Sandias; and once you’re ona Manzano trail, more often than not youwill find you have the whole mountain toyourself.

You’re unlikely to find any wild apple

trees growing along the trails in theManzanos, but the name manzano comesfrom the Spanish word for apple.

At their peak, the colors are so vividthat a hiker could almost hear the pop andsizzle of a fireworks display, for whichFourth of July is surely named.

Manzano hikes

More than a dozen excellent trails climbfrom both sides of the Manzano Mountain

Manzano Mountains: Full of Possibilities

contind on pg 19

Info Box • For information about open trailscontact the Mountainair RangerDistrict located in Mountainair.Call 847-2990 for details or goonline to www.fs.fed.us/r3/cibola/

The Manzano Mountains offer lots of opportunities to watch and photograph birds.



range and connect with the Crest Trail. Three goodones to try are Fourth of July Canyon, AlbuqerqueTrail in the Northern Manzanos, which ties into 4th of July Trail, and the Comanche Trail on the west side.

Most people associate 4th of July Canyon with

Forest Road 55, the popular fall-color driving loop. Butthree excellent short trails start on the road and end atthe Crest Trail.

The middle trail is Bosque Trail 174. This 2.2-mileroute climbs to verdant meadows near 9,549-foot North Bosque Peak via a series of gentle switchbacks.

In the spring Fourth of July Canyon is awash in newfoliage, making it a great place to seek out wildflow-ers. You might even spot a patch of snow still lingering

in the shadows. The Maple Trees were not burned inthe fires, so the vibrant colors will return in full force.If you’re looking for a challenging workout and

stunning views, the 5.5-mile trip up Pine Shadow Trailto Manzano Peak the highest in the range is the wayto go. The trail was closed due to fire, but trail crewsworked every week to re-open it.

You start in cholla- and pinon-covered flats belowthe range’s southern tip, then ascend a rocky, bone-dryridge all the way to the peak. Hardy desert flora reach-es far up the mountainside, and if you hike in the latespring you’ll see numerous cactus and agave blooms.

But on top is the true reward: one of the best360-degree panoramic views in the state.

contind from pg 18

Fall in the Manzano Mountains offer vast canopies of multi-colored flora.

Estancia ValleyCatholic Parish

Serving Edgewood, Estancia, Moriarty & Tajique

San Antonio8566 Hwy. 55, Tajique

Mass Sunday 9:30 am

Our Lady of Mount Carmel

215 Girard, MoriartyMass Saturday 5:30 pm

& Sunday 10 am

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

85 Hwy. 344, EdgewoodMass Sunday 8 am &

5:30 pm

Saints Peter and Paul

101 S. Ninth, Estancia

Mass Sunday 11:30 am -bilingual

Please call the Parish Ofce at 832-6655 for more informationand the Times of Reconciliation.

The Parish Ofce is located at 1400 Third Street South, Moriarty

Our Lady of Mount Carmel

215 Girard, MoriartyMass Saturday 5:30 pm

& Sunday 10 am

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

85 Hwy. 344, EdgewoodMass Sunday 8 am &

5:30 pm

Please call the Parish Ofce at 832-6655 for more informationand the Times of Reconciliation.

The Parish Ofce is located at 1400 Third Street South, Moriarty(Corner of Third Street South and Linden Ave.)




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Folks who live in NewMexico’s Estancia Valleyand East Mountains

— a good number of them,anyway — like to rodeo, andthey are pretty dad blamegood at it. Local cowpokeslike Professional Bull Rider Travis Briscoe, former College National Finals bull-ridingchampion Tate Stratton, andLeighAnn Scribner, who wonthe New Mexico High SchoolRodeo Association all-aroundcowgirl title in 2011 and 2012and who is gunning for a third

straight state crown this sum-mer, attest to the area’s profi-ciency in the sport of rodeoin’.

“We had a lot of interestin all things Western when Iwas growing up,” said RedKingston, the president of the Mountainair RodeoCommittee, with his trademark

friendly drawl. “My inter-ests were about ranchin’ andfarmin’, all things country. Andit’s fun, too, although it can costa lot of money.”

Kingston’s committee over-sees the upkeep of and the pur-suit of improvements for the J.P.Helms Rodeo Grounds.

“The main thing nowadays

is to keep the Western heri-tage alive,” Kingston said. “It’sabout who we were. I don’twant to see it go away.”

There’s something for everyone hereabouts, whether you just want to take a gander from the grandstand or you or your family want to participate.

A few of the area’s rodeos or other related activities include:n Mountainair Gymkhana

Rodeo’s last four of its six-rodeo series will be held onJune 9 and 23, and July 14 and28. For info on these youth,family-oriented rodeos, emailTana Bailey, the MGR secre-tary, at [email protected].

n The Northwest District4-H Horse Show at the indoor Rockin’ Horse Ranch Arena

north of Moriarty is June 15.For info, call Corina Neish at246-4744. Also go to www.rockinhorseranch.net for infoon other events.

nRowdy J’s Buck Off RoughStock Rodeo, with open bulls, junior bulls, mini-bulls, calves

and mutton bustin’, is on June 21and 22 at the Torrance CountyFairgrounds in Estancia. For

info, call Alysha Lenderman at974-7920.

n The Chilili Bull-A-Ramais on July 28. The Chilili RodeoClub will also hold two ranch-style rodeos on June 23 andAug. 18. Call Santos Garcia at269-4442.

n The Bar-Diamond-S

Cowboy Up With A Day At The Rodeo

contind on pg 21

Rodeo in the Estancia Valley and East Mountains is a way of life for many families and a favor-

ite summer activity.



Rodeo is scheduled for June 23 in Yrisarri. The rodeo will include jackpot bull riding, mini-bulls and calf riding. Call 281-8860.

n The DJM Bull Riding Camp, a Christian-based event run byDon Martinez, is tentatively set for July 3, 4 and 5 at Moriarty’sHeritage Arena. It’s for campers 7 years and older, up to andincluding adults. For info, call Lisa Carroll at 505-290-1311.

n The Moriarty Fourth of July Rodeo, with a full gamut of roughstock and speed competitions, will be conducted by theWiseman Rodeo Company at Heritage Arena on July 6 and 7.Call 575-374-9833.

n The dates for the 2013 Torrance County Fair Junior Rodeo,in August, and the Old Timer’s Day Rodeo, usually in late July,weren’t available prior to deadline. They’re normally conductedat the fairgrounds.

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Exploring the magnifi-cent pueblo ruins andimpressive stone mission

churches of the Salinas PuebloMissions National Monumentis a highlight of any tour of theEstancia Valley.

The ruins at Quarai, Aboand Gran Quivira have stoodabandoned for more than threecenturies. Each site is admin-istered by the National Park Service as a separate unit of the Salinas Pueblo Missions

National Monument, whichwas declared a national monu-ment in 1909.

HistoryThe roots of the Salinas

Pueblos trace back centuriesto two ancient Southwesterncultures that overlapped in the

Salinas Valley.Until the 10th century, the

Mogollon culture was domi-nant. Inhabitants lived in pithouses and later in adobe- plastered pole dwellings. Bythe late 1100s, Anasazi culturalinfluence was apparent in thecontiguous stone and adobe

homes.An estimated 10,000 peopleinhabited the area by the 1600s.They traded valuable saltfrom the Las Salinas Valley,and maize, pinon nuts, beans,squash and cotton goods fromthe Rio Grande Villages, for buffalo meat, hides, flints andshells from the Plains Indians

to the East.In 1598, Juan de Oñate

accepted formal submission to

the Spanish king from the area’sIndians. Relations with theIndians soured when soldiersattempted to collect tribute tothe crown; Philip II, charged bythe pope with Christianizingthe natives, maintained thecolony.

By the late 1670s, the

Salinas villages were deserted.The pueblos and their missionsseem to have been abandonedvery suddenly, causing themto be known as the “cities thatdied of fear.”

QuaraiThe smallest of the three

monuments, Quarai dates back to about 1300. Its early Indiandwellers were farmers and trad-ers. The village consisted of

compact apartment complexes built around kivas.

Abo

Located on a pass openinginto the Rio Grande Valley,Abo was a major tradingcenter. Mogollon pit-house builders congregated in Aboaround 1159; their gray paste pottery dominated until it wasreplaced, around 1350, by theglazed painted pottery of theAnasazi.

Gran QuiviraGran Quivira, the Pueblo de

las Humanas, was an importanttrade center for many years. Itis the most extensive puebloand mission ruins in the monu-ment. The early pueblos (1200-1400) were concentric circleswith excellent masonry andmortar work. The later pueblo(1550-1670) was built on topof the earlier rooms; its rock work and masonry are decid-

edly inferior.Monument headquarters, on

U.S. 60 in Mountainair, servesas the information center,museum and bookstore. Staffedvisitor centers at all three ruinssites have trail maps, books,displays, restrooms (with somehandicapped facilities) and pic-

nic areas. The headquartersand ruins are open daily exceptChristmas and New Year’s Day.

Ancient Ruins TellHaunting Stories of the Past

The National Park Service hosted an eclipse viewing at Gran

Quivera in 2012.

Flower Gets Its Day In The Sun



The Mountainair area is bright withsunflowers at the end of August,rains willing.

To celebrate the annual appearance of the sunflowers, the Manzano MountainArt Council will hold the 15th AnnualMountainair Sunflower Festival on Aug.24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Festival is based at the Dr. Saul Community Center, but spills out into the streets of the town.Over past years, over a thousand peoplehave attended.

The festival includes arts and crafts

by local and regional artists, featuring for the fourth year, artists from the Santa FeSpanish Market. One of these artists eachyear creates a sunflower retablo that servesas the logo for the day.

Other events include a sunflower hatcontest, street vendors, a silent auction anda raffle. In past years a sunflower quilt wasraffled off.

The town is also alive with musicincluding contemporary as well as tradi-tional folk music and dance.

Local churches and civic groups alongwith local merchants join in the fun.

For more information emailm c c @ m o u n t a i n a i r c h a m b e r . c o m ,

call 505-384-9767 or go online toMountainairSunflowerFestival.org.

Flower Gets Its Day In The Sun

The Sunflower Festival in Mountainair features many events, but the most fun mightbe the hat contest.

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More than three centuries ago,soon after the Spanish began set-tling in New Mexico, a beautiful

Spanish nun who dressed in blue appearedagain and again in visions to the JumanoIndians who lived at the three missions

and ruin sites near Mountainair, accordingto legend.Today, the location is known as the

Salinas Pueblo Missions NationalMonument Region around Mountainair.

The nun, who in actuality had never leftSpain, is said to have exhorted the Indians toconvert to Christianity. Versions of the samestory would crop up in several historicalaccounts, helping keep the legend alive.

She was Sister Maria de Jesus deAgreda, a woman who lived her entire lifein Spain, from 1602 to 1665.

Today, the “Lady in Blue” or “Blue Nun” or “Blue Lady of the Plains” is on a path to canonization, a slow process that began shortly after her death and may notend with Sister Maria de Agreda becomingSaint Maria de Agreda. Only time will tell.

Nonetheless, because she is said to haveappeared to Native Americans in NewMexico while she lived in a convent innorthern Spain — a phenomenon called“bilocation” — Maria de Agreda todayremains a celebrity of sorts in and aroundMountainair. Besides being seen as anhistorical figure and a holy woman, she isconsidered a potential economic boon for the town of Mountainair.

Anne Ravenstone, president of theManzano Mountain Arts Council, is butone of many who subscribe to that view.She is also one of many who is pushing and planning for a new mural in Mountainair, atown already known for its murals.

“For years, many people have beenwondering how we can get the town to prosper,” she said.

Mountainair has long been known as atown where it hasn’t always been easy tomake a go of things. Although the area has

long had indigious settlements, it was thecoming of the railroad in the late 1800s thatset the community on its agricultural path.

Any farmer can tell you there are goodyears and bad years, and Mountainair hashad both. In the 1990s, the town start to seeartists moving and work at revitalizing thearea.

Mountainair still celebrates its agricul-

tural roots, and had been accepting of its burgeoning role as an arts destination.

The Manzano Mountain Art Council,along with the Cibola Arts Gallery, has been the engine driving the renaissance.The council sponsors the town’s annualSunflower Festival and its artists havespent the last decade or so sprucing uplocal buildings with murals and tile mosi-acs.

The group’s latest project is a muralfeaturing the Blue Nun.

Plans call for the mural to grace thewest wall of the Abo Trading Co., at theintersection of state Highways 55 and 60.Ravenstone described it as “a huge wall.”The central figure, of course, will be Sister Maria de Agreda, but will include much

more, especially a respectful picture of Native Americans “whose role in all this isobviously huge,” Ravenstone said.

Even before the first brush stroke or ceramic tile hits the wall, the mural is seenas a work of art that will attract touriststo the town and help create a strong, eco-nomic base.

Sor Maria de Agreda, as she is sometimescalled, came out of a Franciscan background

and philosophy, Tomas Wolff said, one that believes in helping the community.

“So in some ways, what we’re doingexemplifies her life,” he said.

As a producer, facilitator and organizer of the project, Wolff’s job is to get variousartists to collaborate on the mural. Andthat, he jokes, “is not always an easy job.”

Even before moving to Mountainair

six or seven years ago and working onthe town’s murals, Wolff said, he helpedorganize at least 20 murals in easternPennsylvania. He is also an artist himself,specializing in clay and mosaics.

Wolff is hoping work can get started onthe mural within a month or so after theFebruary meeting. It will consist of paintand mosaics and be completed on panelsof Hardibacker, a commercial brand of

cement board, allowing much of the work to be done indoors. Once they are finished,the panels will be attached to the outsidewall, which at this point is “adobe fallingoff of brick,” he said.

The work should be completed by theend of 2013.

For more information on the ManzanoMountain Art Council go online to www.

manzanomountainartcouncil.org or theCibola Arts Gallery at www.cibolaarts.com.

From Ag to Arts, Mountainair has it all

Stone cutter Frank Maurer takes advan-

tage of the warm sun outside the Cibola

Arts Gallery in Mountainair to get a little

work done. The gallery and the artists of

the Manzano Mountain Art Council are at

the center of efforts to make Mountainair

an arts destination.

Mountain Villages Keep Tradition Alive



Spanish Land GrantsThe old Spanish land grant villages of

Chilili, Tajique, Torreon and Manzano liveon, but 17th-century Indian Pueblos and

mission churches at Chilili and Tajiquehave vanished.

• Chilili: A settlement 20 miles southof Tijeras in the east Manzano Mountainfoothills is one of the oldest place namesin New Mexico. This Hispanic settlementwas established in 1841 as a land grant.

• Escobosa: A settlement 16 miles southof Tijeras in the Manzano Mountain foot-

hills. The name refers to grass residentsused to make brooms.• Manzano: This small Hispanic village

takes its name from apples, (Spanish, man-zanas). The settlement became a Spanishland grant in 1829.

• Punta de Agua: The community near Mountainair took its name from “point of water” from a spring when it was settledafter 1850.

• Tajique: This was the first of sev-eral Spanish settlements in the ManzanoMountain foothills. It was abandoned dueto Indian raids but resettled as a land grant

in 1834.• Torreon: Settlement established on

the site of an Indian pueblo. The villagereceived a land grant in 1841.

Las Matachines lead parishioners down the hill leading from the Santo Niño mission

church in Carnuel at the Fiesta St. Michael last fall.

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If you have lived in, or vis-ited, the East Mountains for very long, you have prob-

ably been to Tinkertown.If you haven’t, then what

have you been waiting for?

Carla Ward has been run-ning the museum since 1983.She sees 20,000 visitors a sea-son — from April to the endof October — and they comefrom all around the world.

Ward says the best part isthe customers. She says oneof her favorite things aboutTinkertown is when customers

come in and say that their par-ents brought them there whenthey were kids, and now theyare bringing their kids.

Seeing Tinkertown throughyour children’s eyes can be awhole new experience.

You can start by pointingout to the kids some of the

walls around the museum,made of 55,000 glass bottlescollected from the roadsideover the years, and an uninten-tional monument to recycling.

Make sure to point their lit-tle faces down for a look at thehorseshoes embedded in con-crete that adorn the entrance of the museum. Lead them in to

see the actual 35-foot antiquewooden sailboat, which hassailed around the world andis quite large compared to theother Lilliputian exhibits.

You can spend a couple of hours pointing out the intricatedetail in the miniature carvedexhibits — God and the Devil

fighting over some poor man,the tiny vendor forever hand-ing a child a fluffy pink min-

Tinkertown’s Mission: Eclectic Fun

Tinkertown was created 30 years ago by sign artist Ross Ward.

It opened as an attraction on the Crest Highway in 1983.

A scene from an Old West town carved by Ross Ward while the

rest of us watched television.

iature cotton candy that looksgood enough to eat, the cutelittle bunny that Vanteen themagician is pulling out of hishat.

It’s a sure bet that the kids

will point out a few things toyou, too, that you might havemissed.

Don’t forget to look up anddown and all around — younever know what you mightfind in the nooks and cran-nies of the twisting and turning22-room museum.

Be prepared to answer sometypical kid questions: Why arethese floors made of wood?Why are there wooden vulturesall over and why are they look-ing at me?

You might come up with afew questions yourself, such as:Who dusts all of this?

You can point out the manycoin-operated attractions — Otto the one-man band, the for-tune telling gypsy, the tiny chef chasing the even tinier chickenaround and around. And don’tforget to tell the younguns’ thatstuff like this was the closestthing people used to have to

video games.Be sure to tell the kids thatthis is what happens when youhave a passion for something,and decide to share that passionwith the world.

With so much detail in everyexhibit, and with little eyes tosee through, Tinkertown could

be a whole new experience, nomatter how many times you’ve been there before.

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course has captured the imagination of golf publications such as Golf Digest magazine,and has consistently found itself rankedhighly on most lists of the best public golf courses in the United States.

Soon after the course opened, Golf Digest awarded Paa-Ko Ridge a lofty rank-ing of 27th-best in the country among BestAffordable Public Courses in its annual

report on America’s best and most afford-able courses.In the 2007 Zagat Survey, Paa-Ko Ridge

was the only course in the Southwest to be“top rated.”

“Links Magazine” recently named Paa-Ko one of the top 10 Best Course for theMoney.

“Having Links Magazine recognizePaa-Ko Ridge Golf Course for the incred-

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Golf Course general manager.Designed by renowned course architect

Ken Dye, known for creating Pinon Hillsin Farmington, Paa-Ko Ridge is “easy on

the eyes and on the wallet,” according toGolf Digest writer Ron Whitten.

The length of the season at Paa-KoRidge depends on the weather but can

extend as late as Dec. 1. The courseremained open until at least mid- to late November during its first five seasons. Itusually reopens around March 1.

The course offers a resort feel, withcomputerized Global Positioning Satellitegolf carts that tell you how far you are from pins. There’s also bottled water in the carts,free balls on the driving range, a slick pro

shop with a good selection and longer peri-ods between tee times.With greens fees ranging from $59

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Paa-Ko Ridge also offers a “multi-play pass,” where players can purchase three,five or 10 rounds in advance at a reducedrate, as well as a punch-card program and

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The Estancia Valley is where PunkinChunkin dreams are made, and itis home to a field where the annual

gourd launch brings glory or shame to anelite group of cannon builders.

The great, yearly pumpkin launch has been going on for so long, it seems onlynatural that there would be a line of giantair cannons lined up at the field outsideEstancia each year. Apparently, it takes alot of time, ingenuity, money and work tomake it happen though.

“It’s an expensive hobby,” said RaymondDennis, who helped to spark local interest

in the big, gourd-hurling guns about adecade ago.The 2013 Pumpkinfest, sponsored by

the Estancia Rotary Club and includes theannual Punkin Chunkin event, will be heldOct. 19 off N.M. 55 just east of Estancia.

Dennis designed and help build “ElLauncho Grande,” the first big — really,really big — pumpkin gun in the valley.Prior to the arrival of his compressed air

cannon, there were slings, a trebuchet or two and other types of pumpkin-launchersthat Dennis figured he could beat.

To work up the design for the valley’sfirst big gun, Dennis actually made a tripto Delaware, where the national competi-tion is held each year.

When Dennis came back into town, hemet with some of his employees and a few

co-conspirators of his own in a restaurantin Moriarty. He drew up some sketches andthey went to work, trying to keep the ideaunder wraps.

In October of 1999, the newly made ElLauncho Grande made its debut. And thecannon blew the competition away, win-ning with a recorded distance of 2,912 feet.That was before they extended the barrelto 65 feet.

Now retired, Dennis no longer takes part in the competition, but he gets credit

for getting the ball rolling.“It’s that Dennis that got us started,”

said Mack.

Refining the cannon design is also a process that Mack and his sons, Todd andTerry Mack, enjoy.

“I like thinking something up or takingsomeone’s idea and making it a reality,”he said. “To procure metal, winches, cable

and put it together and make it do some-thing. That’s where our enthusiasm comesfrom.”

Pumpkins to the Left,Pumpkinsto the Right, Fun Everywhere

Punkin chunkin is about the fun, but some people take it serious. Several folks from

the Estancia Valley have made air cannons designed for only one thing — hurling a

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Since the first settlersarrived in the EstanciaValley, agriculture has

been a major part of life.This is no different in 2012

as it was in 1912, the only dif-ference being the diversity of agriculture which now part of the valley.

A century ago, farming wasking. New immigrants arrivedfinding the valley fertile andrain abundant. Dry land farm-ing was a good way to make aliving and crops ranged fromthe might pinto bean to wheatand other grains.

But in a valley that hasno rivers and a few springs,droughts hit hard. By the 1950s,true agricultural diversity

became imperative.With that diversity came

more livestock, which changedthe character of the valley, butkept its agricultural roots alive.

Today, agriculture pays ahuge role in the economy of the valley.

According to the USDA,

the market value of TorranceCounty products sold was morethan $40 million in 2007, whichwas an 11 percent increase invalue from 2002. Of that, about58 percent of those sales camefrom livestock. For Santa FeCounty, of which the northernthird of the valley lies within,the market value of agricultural products was more than $12million in 2007, with 68 percent

of that coming from crop sales.The top crops in each coun-

ty?Corn silage and hay.And although it counts for

only a fraction of the localcrops, Torrance County is thetop producer of sod in NewMexico.

Nearly 1.8 million acres of land within Torrance Countyis used for agriculture and thenumber of farms increasedfrom 461 in 2002 to 561 in2007.

Agriculture education is away of life in our communitiesas well, with strong FFA clubsand hundreds of kids involvedwith 4-H.

For more information on

agriculture in the EstanciaValley, contact the New MexicoState University CooperativeExtension Service office inEstancia at 505-246-4745 or go online to torranceextension.nmsu.edu.

It seems somewhat appropriate that asthe Torrance County Commission inOctober 1909 was making the deci-

sion as to whether the citizens of Estanciashould incorporate their settlement intoa town that Halley’s Comet was in thewestern sky.

When a vote was taken on Feb. 23, 1910to elect a mayor and board of trustees, thecomet was making its preparation to returnto the outer reaches of the solar system.

The incorporation was, of course, bignews in the local newspaper the Estancia News, but its editor, P.A. Speckman alsoleft a little space in the pages to quell con-cerns about the comet’s approach to Earth.

In the Jan. 28, 1910 issue of the News,

Speckman wrote:

Estancia — Preparing for the Future

Agriculture plays an important

part in the Estancia Valley’s

economy. According to theUSDA, the market value of

Torrance County products

exceeded $40 million in 2007.

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Estancia Valley Relieson Farming and Ranching


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“The rumor that it will or may come in contact with the Earthto the destruction of the latter has been disproven by scientists.

“The nearest distance it approaches the Earth being given asabout forty million miles. If this be true, and we have no reasonto doubt it, there is no need to fear the celestial visitor.”

What Speckman didn’t point out was that the comet’s tail didindeed pass over the Earth in May 1910, providing what musthave been an amazing sight.

Incorporation of the town was a forgone conclusion by thetime the citizens of Estancia decided to do it. The town hadalready been serving as county seat of the newly formed TorranceCounty since 1905. And according to the reports of people wholived there at the time, the town was in the midst of a boom.

The population of Torrance County in 1910 was estimated at

around 10,000 people, with more and more immigrants movingin daily.In 2009 the town celebrated its 100th birthday in the only way

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Hundreds of miles of hiking trailscriss-cross the Cibola NationalForest, which includes both the

Sandia and Manzano mountains.Two U.S. Forest Service ranger dis-

tricts manage this portion of the Cibola.The Mountainair Ranger District coversthe southern portion that encompassesthe Manzano Mountains, and the SandiaRanger District in the northern part coversthe Sandia Mountains.

Both ranges are part of the continuousfault-block system that forms the east sideof the Rio Grande rift valley from Placitasto Socorro.

The Sandias and Manzanos were cre-

ated when monolithic blocks of the Earth’scrust thrust upward about 20 million yearsago. Ancient granite exposed along thesteep west faces of the ranges forms thesides of the fault-blocks. The graduallysloping, heavily forested east faces — actually the tops of the blocks — arecapped with much younger sedimentarylayers.

The most prominent feature of theSandia Mountains is probably SandiaCrest, which tops out at the 10,658 feet.From the visitors area at the Crest you canget a full view of much of central NewMexico, including a startling look at thecity of Albuquerque to the west and theexpansive Estancia Valley to the south-west. There is a gift shop at the Crest and plenty of trails for hiking.

The Sandia Mountain Wilderness,when it was established through theEndangered American Wilderness Act of 1978, was made up of 30,981 acres of the Sandia Ranger District’s total 100,555acres. Acquisition of the Elena GallegosGrant in 1981 increased it to 37,232 acresof wilderness.

More than 2 million people journey tothe Sandias each year to hike the roughly117 miles of the district’s trails, accordingthe Sandia Ranger District.

More than a dozen trails are availableto choose from, with one scenic favorite being the Crest Trail — the longest trail in

the Sandia Mountains with a total length of 28.2 miles. This trail is often thought of astwo trails; the South Crest Trail, 16 miles

long from the south trailhead at CanyonEstates in Tijeras Canyon to Sandia Crest;and the North Crest Trail, 12.2 miles longfrom the north trailhead at Tunnel Springsnear Placitas to Sandia Crest.

One interesting side trip within theSandia Mountains is to the Sandia ManCave. The cave, discovered by an anthro- pology graduate student in 1936, wasexcavated by University of New Mexicoarchaeological teams between 1937 and1941. It contained skeletal remains of suchIce Age beasts as the woolly mammoth andmastodon and giant sloth, as well as stonelance and arrow points, basket scraps and

remnants of woven yucca moccasins.

Escape the city to the Sandia Mountains

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Sandia Ranger Station at 11776 N.M. 337 South, just south of thetrafc light in Tijeras, or call281-3304 or go online towww.fs.fed.us/r3/cibola/

Visitors can see much of central New Mexico from Sandia Crest. After checking out

the views, visitors can browse through the gift shop..

The diggers found no human bones

contind from pg 34



The diggers found no human bonesin the cave debris.

To get to Sandia Man Cave, takethe Crest Highway to N.M. 165 anddrive on a bumpy dirt road for about

five miles. There is a short hike up theside of the mountain to get to the cave.Make sure to bring a flashlight andwear old clothes if you want to explorethe cave.

A host of hiking trails ranging fromeasy walks to more strenuous uphill jaunts are accessible from the numer-ous trailheads and picnic groundsalong the Sandia Crest Highway (N.M.536). Hikers can also park at the topof the Crest Highway and follow a portion of the Crest Trail to the upper terminal of the Sandia Peak Tramway,about 1.5 gentle miles away.

To get to the Sandia trails, takeI-40 to the Tijeras exit. Head northon N.M. 14 until you come to a largeintersection (no stop light) with N.M.

536, where a blue sign points to theski basin. The crest is about 15 milesup, but trailheads are marked alongthe way. The Sandia Man Cave is another popular side trip in the Sandia Mountains. Make sure

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The mission church in Golden was recently

renovatedThe Old Coal Town Museum in

Madrid.

Christmas holds a special

place in the village of Madrid.

Winding along the east side of

the Sandias, the Turquoise Trailfollows N.M. 14 through Cedar

Crest and three revived ghost towns.• Cedar Crest: A settlement in the east-

ern foothills of the Sandia Mountains wasfounded in 1922 by Carl Webb, who movedto the mountains for health reasons. He built rental cabins, opened a trading postand operated the Cedar Crest Post Office.

• San Antonio: This small communityone mile north of Tijeras was named for its patron saint. It was a trading place when ox

carts made their way from Santa Fe.

• San Antonito: This community is probably named for its association with theolder community, San Antonio, five milessouth of it.

• Sandia Park: Residential communitynamed for its location in the east foothillsof the Sandia Mountains.

• Golden: Gold was discovered in theOrtiz Mountains in 1839, and soon two

small mining camps developed. Largemining companies moved in but hopes for mineral wealth quickly dwindled. Mining

is gone, but the town still survives.

• Madrid: Coal mining began here in1835 and peaked in 1920. When demand

for coal dwindled after World War II, the

entire town was offered for $250,000, but

there were no takers. Art galleries and

restaurants have replaced anthracite as a

resource.

• Cerrillos: The settlement was a min-

ing town of turquoise, silver, gold and thencoal. The lovely town in the now-dormant

mining hills has art galleries and eateries.

Getting AroundTurquoise Trail Communities

Turquoise Trail



The Turquoise Trail is one of NewMexico’s treasures.

The Turquoise Trail was des-ignated as a National Scenic Byway in2000, the result of the work of a dedicatedgroup of residents in the Turquoise TrailAssociation. But its history stretches back to the first settlers in the area. The tur-quoise and other precious minerals foundin the Sandia and Ortiz Mountains werevalued by nomadic and pueblo Indianswho made New Mexico home. The min-erals in the hills attracted the Spanish and

American settlers.The 62-mile trail begins in Tijeras,

which has long been a stopping point inthe pass between the Manzano and SandiaMountains.

Driving up N.M. 14 from Tijeras youwill pass through the unincorporatedcommunities of San Antonito, Cedar Crest, San Antonio and Sandia Park. The

area is a mixture of old and new, withhistoric churches sitting next to moderngrocery stores.

Before leaving the Sandia Mountains,

the trail takes a detour up the Crest Highwayup to the 10,687 foot Sandia Peak.

After your visit to Sandia Peak, con-tinue up N.M. 14 where you will shortlycome upon the mining communities of Golden, Madrid and Cerillos. Golden wasso named for the gold found nearby. It’sa quiet little village, but if your timing isright, you can stop by the general store for a soda pop.

Madrid was founded as a coal min-ing community, but is now probably oneof the most eclectic little towns in New

Mexico. There’s entertainment and plentyof shops lining the street selling the waresof the artist residents of the town.

Next on to Cerillos, where the best tur-quoise in the southwest was once found.

As you travel up N.M. 14, you willeventually come to Santa Fe, the northernterminus for the trail. After your day inSanta Fe, you could take Interstate 25

back to Albuquerque, but the better thingto do would be to take the Turquoise Trail back and see all the things you missed thefirst time.

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East Mountains residents with anaffinity for winter sports relish thefact that the Sandia Mountains right

in their backyard offer a wealth of recre-ation.

One of the highlights is the Sandia Peak Ski Area, and the world’s longest aerialtramway that reaches the top of the ski areafrom Albuquerque.

Sandia Peak Tramway’s story is abouta group of Albuquerque ski enthusiastswho had to drive to the green side of themountain in the winter to ski. They wouldhike as far as possible uphill and ski down.

After the U.S. Forest Service cleared ahill in 1936, the adventurers organized theAlbuquerque Ski Club and in 1937 built a1,500-foot ski tow. In 1938, the CivilianConservation Corps cleared the slope thatleads to the present-day ski lodge.

The ribbon cutting for the tram wasMay 7, 1966. The horizontal length of thelongest tramway in the world is 14,657 feetor 2.7 miles with a vertical rise of 3,819feet.

But the tram is only one passage tothe top of the Sandia Mountain. Another is the drive to the top on the east side of the mountain. And a third is the chairliftfrom the base of the Sandia Peak Ski Area, beginning at 8,650 feet rising to the peak at10,378 feet. At the top, the view of 11,000square miles of the Land of Enchantment

boggles the mind.The ski area’s winter season runs mid-

December through mid-March, althoughthe 2009-2010 season was extended intoApril. The vertical rise from base to the peak is 1,700 feet. The ski area offers 30trails serviced by four chairlifts, a surfacelift and a children’s mighty mite. Ski patrolvolunteers are on duty daily. A cafeteria in

the day lodge serves breakfast, lunch andsnacks. The lodge is a large facility offer-ing panoramic views of the ski area and

the Estancia Valley to the east. A largenetwork of cross-country ski trails is alsoavailable. The average snowfall in the skiarea is 125 inches.

The summer season from MemorialDay through the second Sunday of October is open Thursdays throughSundays and holidays, and daily during

Balloon Fiesta in October. Chairlift ridersenjoying the fresh air and breath-takingview also see mountain bike riders chal-lenging the spectacular mountain biketrails.

Rental equipment for both seasons isavailable on site. For more informationcall the ski area at 242-9052.

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Sandia Peak Ski Area is accessible for the east and west sides of the mountain.

Sandia Peak Ski Area offers runs for

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Once a year, every year, bunches of people drive up to the top of SandiaMountain, strap big, funky shoes

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Snowshoe Race will be held in January2014. And it won’t just be a bunch of experts. In fact, some participants may nothave ever put on snowshoes before, accord-ing to Joy Bosquez, who is organizes theevent with her husband, Matt.

“It’s just a beautiful, snow covered,

national forest,” Matt said.The course runs from the Crest Houseat the top of the mountain along the ridgeline to the south and back again and itreally doesn’t gain or lose much altitude,Matt said.

“It’s really a family-oriented activity,”Joy added.

The entire 3.2 mile course will bemarked with flags and there will be mar-

shals along the way ensure people’s safety,Joy and Matt said.

“We do have some pretty serious rac-ers,” Matt said. “It’s open to all skill

levels.”Adding to the family atmosphere, spon-sors have provided hot beverages andsnacks for before and after the race, andthere will be prizes for the winners in dif-

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Madrid has packed an awful lotinto its relatively brief existence.

In the early 1900s it was acompany-owned coal mining town, witha dentist and medical office and even a car dealership — with cars that could only be purchased with “scrip,” company money.It was also home to the first baseball fieldwest of the Mississippi to have electriclights and an annual Christmas displayrumored to have inspired Walt Disney tocreate Disneyland.

When the demand for coal decreasedin the 1950s and the company went under,

Madrid gained overnight ghost town sta-tus. Miners and their families had to leavewhatever possessions they couldn’t fitinto their cars when they went in search of new lives, leaving abandoned houses that,eerily, looked inhabited but weren’t.

Years later, the town was reborn, andMadrid has since evolved into a mecca for national and international tourists, New

Mexicans in search of a good day trip, artlovers and even movie makers.It has been an interesting journey,

which you can learn more about at theOld Coal Town Museum. The museum isnot new, but the exhibits have been con-solidated, organized, and added to, and itreopened earlier this year in its new format.

Lynn McLane is a resident of Madrid and one of the tour guides at

the updated museum. As she walks youthrough the exhibits, her enthusiasm for thetown and its history is evident.

“It’s got so much ... It’s always hadeverything you would want in the world,and it really still does. We have an exampleof every kind of person that you wouldhave in a big city ... it really is a microcosmof the world, and always has been. I like it

because it’s steeped in so much history,”McLane said.

The tour starts in the Engine HouseTheatre, with the impressive sight of agiant opening to the elements in the back wall of the stage, with a real train comingthrough — convenient for any play thatrequires a heroine to be tied to railroadtracks by a villain. From there, the exhibitsinclude electrical and mechanical devicesused in the town and in the mines, a display with a history of movies that have been made in the town, pictures of grand

Christmas lights and the old baseball field,and a few notes about some Madrid ghost

hunts.The museum is located right next to

the Mine Shaft Tavern. Call 438-3780 for hours.

More than historyThe funky, biker, hippie town of Madrid

truly does seem like it’s always been there,and always been part of New Mexico.

For those who came in when it was aghost town — before the tour buses and

biker rallies, and before the streets were

Madrid Has SomethingFor All Seasons

contind on pg 41

There is plenty to see and do during a visit to Madrid, whether you are looking for

spiritual healing or a cold beer.

lined with cars each weekend — it’s important to give a little

contind from pg 40



credit to the people who came there first.

Diana Johnson and her husband, Mel, came from Chicago

to open Johnsons of Madrid in 1973, renting it from a coal

company for the first two years of its existence, she said.Back then, there was a tavern, a museum, a caretaker and

a handful of other renters in town. Both Johnson and her hus-

band are graduates of the Art Institute of Chicago, both were

teachers and had summers off, and they came to New Mexico

for the weather, she said.

“It was the summer of the end of the Vietnam War (1975),”

said Johnson, who turned 76 in February. “… Half my life has

been in this gallery … we don’t intend to close out.”

She added that the gallery collection is often eclectic

because there is not a set theme.

“It’s a gallery of artists who do the best work,” she said.

“People walk through the gallery and can’t believe the quality

of the work,” she said.

Johnsons of Madrid Galleries of Fine & Fiber Art is closed

on Tuesdays, except by appointment, and is open on Sunday

from noon to 5 p.m. The rest of the week the hours are 10 a.m.

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There is plenty to explorein the East Mountainsand Estancia Valley,

here are some things thatshouldn’t be forgotten:

Wildlife West NaturePark In addition to the zoo,

the park hosts many eventsthroughout the year. For 2013events include:

• Wildlife Festival,Saturday, June 15, 10 a.m. -6 p.m. Join the celebrationof wildlife in New Mexico.Wildlife West is one of the few places where people can beclose to and observe MexicanWolves in their natural habi-tat and get behind the scenestours of Koshari, a 500 pound black bear. Representativesfrom wildlife and environ-mental organizations will present information about New Mexico’s wildlife andwilderness areas. Other pre-

senters include Elke Duerr,Albuquerque filmmaker andconservationist; Doug Scott,author of Waterfalls in NewMexico; and Christian Meuli, permaculturalist. Visitors willalso see a monarch butterflydemonstration.

• 11th Annual Wildlife

Music Festival, Friday -Sunday, July 19 - 21. FridayBarn Dance, 7 p.m.; Saturday,11 a.m. - 10 p.m. and Sunday11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

This year’s headlinersinclude Lisa Haley & theZydekats, Blue Canyon Boys,Chuck Pyle and Joe West.

• Harvest Festival, Saturday

Plenty to See, Plenty to Do

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ClubBingo every Tuesday - 7pm

4th of July Pancake Breakfast /Bingo 2pm

Pinto Bean & Pancake Breakfast - Oct. 12

Toy Run/Bike Rally - TBASanta/Toys for Kids - Dec. 15

Eye Screening during school year (local schools)

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Free Flight Falcons Saturdays June 15 - August 31, 6:00 p.m. Falcon Shows

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World BlacksmithChampionshipFriday - Sunday, October 25 - 27 Chuckwagon Suppers& ShowsSaturdays, June 15 -August 31, 6:00 p.m.

Harvest FestivalSat. & Sun., August 24 - 25, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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Find Us On The WebGet more information about the EastMountains and Estancia Valley online atthese sites:

GOVERNMENTCity of Moriarty — www.cityofmoriarty.orgTown of Estancia —

www.townofestancia.comTorrance County — www.torrancecountynm.comTown of Edgewood — www.edgewood-nm.gov.

CHAMBERS OF COMMERCEMountainair Chamber of Commerce — mountainairchamber.com.

East Mountain Chamber of Commerce — www.eastmountainchamber.com.Edgewood Chamber of Commerce —

www.edgewoodchambernm.com.Moriarty Chamber of Commerce — www.moriartychamber.com.Estancia Valley Economic DevelopmentAssociation — www.evedanm.com.

SOMETHING TO DO New Mexico Route 66 Association —

www.rt66nm.org.Rockin’ Horse Ranch — www.rockinhorseranch.netWildlife West Nature Park — www.wildlifewest.org.Tinkertown — www.tinkertown.com.Single Action Shooting Society --www.sassnet.org. New Mexico Mountain Climbing —

mountainproject.org.Salinas Mission National Monument — www.nps.gov/sapu.

Cibola National Forest —

www.fs.fed.us/r3/cibola.

Southwest Soaring Museum —

www.swsoaringmuseum.org.

McCalls Pumpkin Patch —

www.mccallpumpkinpatch.com.

Sandia Peak Ski Area —

www.sandiapeak.com.Turquoise Trail National Scenic Byway

— www.turquoisetrail.org.

Albuquerque Experimental Aircraft

Association — www.eaa179.com.

Land of Enchantment Fly In —

www.landofenchantmentflyin.org.

And keep up with all the news in the

Estancia Valley and East Mountains at

www.mvtelegraph.com

and Sunday, August 24 - 25, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

• World Blacksmith Championship,Friday - Sunday, October 25 - 27.

• Dirty Dash August 31-September 1Mud, Fun run

Contact Wildlife West at 505-281-7655 or online at www.wildlifewest.org.

MAGS INDOOR SHOOTING

Slated for opening in June. If you arein the mood to shoot a couple of roundsor get your rifle sighted for hunting sea-son, this indoor range in the MoriartyIndustrial park can help you out. Call338-2222.

OLD TIMERS DAY Estancia cel-ebrates its old timers — and young ones,too — on the last Saturday in July. The

event includes a parade, dances, a rodeoand class reunions.TORRANCE COUNTY FAIR

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FIBER FARM TOUR Come get anup-close look at some operating farms spe-cializing in fiber-producing animals. The

annual tour is a great event for families.This year’s tour will take place June 1 and2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For info, go onlineto www.hollywickfarms.com

MADRID Take a drive up theTurquoise Trail to Madrid and explorethis electic little town. Once a coal town,the village now boasts art galleries andentertainment. Annual events include theCrawdaddy Festival in May and be sure to

visit during the month of December withthe whole town is decorated for the holi-days. For info, go to www.visitmadridnm.com.

MANZANO MOUNTAINRETREAT AND APPLE FARM Eachfall, the retreat’s apple store opens for acouple of weeks to sell the best applesin the state of New Mexico. The retreat

also is ideal for corporate get-aways andconferences. For info, go to www.manza-

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MCCALL S PUMPKIN PATCH Boasting a corn maze acres in size, twohauted houses and a giant pumpkin patch,

McCall’s offers something for everyoneeach fall in Moriarty. Go to mccallpump-kinpatch.com for more information.

MEMORIAL OF PERPETUALTEARS Located on the north freewayfrontage road in Moriarty, the field of headstones was conceived as memorialfor victims of DWI. For info, go to www.dwimemorialofperpetualtears.org.

BICYCLING Whether it’s thrashing

on the trails of Cibola National Forest or time trials in the Estancia Valley, bicyclistscan find just about any terrain to enjoy.Several competitions are held throughoutthe year. The Paula Higgins MemorialTime Trials are held each Labor Dayweekend south of Moriarty pitting ridersagainst the clock. Several world recordshave been broken during the event. Go to

nmcycling.com for more info.FOURTH OF JULYCELEBRATIONS Fourth of July isalways a special time in the mountainsand valley. Moriarty has its parade androdeo, Estancia puts on a full-day of events including a fishing derby and usu-ally a horseshoe competition, and Tijerasusually holds a ceremony at its Veteran’sMemorial.

RUN, RALLY AND ROCK Edgewood’s annual birthday party will beheld in August in 2013. Go to edgewood-chambernm.com for more info.

MORIARTY HISTORICALMUSEUM The museum is open Tuesdaythrough Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. andSaturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. within theMoriarty Civic Center at 202 Broadway.

Go to www.moriartymuseum.org for moreinfo.

JUST IMAGINE GALLERY A neatlittle art gallery located in Tijeras acrossfrom the East Mountain Library. Drop byfor a cup of coffee and to see work fromlocal artists. Open Wednesday throughSaturday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. andSunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Go to www.tijerasartsmarket.com for more info.

SANDIA NATURAL HISTORYCENTER The Sandia Mountain Natural

History Center is a joint project betweenthe New Mexico Museum of NaturalHistory and Science and AlbuquerquePublic Schools that offers educationaltours and lectures. The center, locatedin Cedar Crest, is not open to the public

except for special scheduled events. Go tosites.google.com/a/aps.edu/smnhc/homefor more information.

WATERMELON GALLERY Located at 12220 N.M. 14 in Cedar Crest,the gallery always has a show and a finestable of local artists. Gallery hours areFriday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Satardayand Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Go tothewatermelongallery.com for more info.

OLD SCHOOLHOUSE GALLERY The gallery opened several years ago in a

refurbished school house in San Antonito.

New shows are on display every month.

Located at 12504 N.M. 14, go to www.

theoldschoolhousegallery.com for more

information.

VETERANS MEMORIAL IN

TIJERAS Dedicated in 2010, the TijerasVeterans Memorial pays homage to local

men and women who served in the mili-

tary. The memorial is located just west of

the East Mountain Library.

SHAFFER HOTEL Built in 1923,

the hotel and dining room boasts a

Pueblo-Deco facade, a delicious menu

and some say a ghost or two. Located in

Mountainair, go to www.shafferhotel.com

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