A Walk Around the Horizon: Discovering New Mexico’s Mountains of the Four Directions

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North of Santa Fe, the New Mexico landscape is framed by four high mountains. Even though they’re sacred to the Tewa Pueblo Indians, the four peaks are in different bureaucratic and cultural zones, because of this that every peak attracts visitors but few non-Indian travelers discuss with more than probably the most mountains. Tom Harmer’s chronicle of mountaineering all four of these mountains in one summer―Sandia to the south, Chicoma to the west, Canjilon to the north, and Truchas to the east―offers a unique view of a montane forest unlike any on this planet, where mountain, plain, and desert biota converge. Out of doors enthusiasts and armchair travelers alike will relish Harmer’s precise account of his backpacking adventure, wherein this sixty-two-year-old Anglo discovers the realities of complicated cultural legacies ecological challenges, and human foibles counterpoised against his own strengths and frailties.

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