Sunday, January 15, 2012

Tent Rocks

Although the high country is experiencing an early thaw, and walking surfaces vary between snow, ice, and mud (to be exact, it is snowing here right now), there is a place that offers perfect winter hiking.  At elevations between 5,570 and 6,760 feet, Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument between Santa Fe and Albuquerque is an other-wordly place of hoodoos, occasional slot canyons and geologic wonders created by explosions 6 and 7 million years ago in the Jemez volcanic field.   


  






Tent Rocks is open in the winter months (November 1-March 10) from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Your canine friends will need to stay at home while you enjoy the formations but you will definitely need to bring your photography equipment!

until next Monday,

DB

a passion for the image






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