A young country embraced new states along the Mexican border less than a century ago. In northern New Mexico, the Rocky Mountains raise as the Sangre de Cristo Range and continue their continental march north as the San Juan Mountains and countless forests, valleys, and summits. The Southwest and Northwest are wedded by this rocky backbone from sonoran desert to northern glaciers. Southwest extremes abound - desert and mountain, heat and cold, old world culture and new age consciousness. Visitors are attracted by the allure of old and new.
Native lands are strongholds of honor that preserve tradition in their nations.
Respect is essential for survival in lands of extreme. With proper understanding, comfort is possible in a land that is marginal in its bounty, yet plentiful in its spirit and grandeur.