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When I visited the White Sands National Park it was still the White Sands National Monument. What’s the difference? I had to look this up and found the answer from one of my favorite publications, Outside. National Parks have scenic, inspirational, educational, and recreational value. National monuments have objects of historical, cultural, and/or scientific interest. So why the change? By redesignating from White Sands National Monument to White Sands National Park, the people of New Mexico are able to protect […]
When you look at Google Maps, Agathla Peak first appears as El Capitan. El Capitan is the Spanish name, Agathla Peak the anglicized version of the Navajo name. According to the fine folks at Wikipedia, this means ‘much wool’. This is a reference to the fur of antelope and deer caught on the rocks. To the Navajo, the peak, thrusting some 1500 feet above the surrounding plain, is a sacred place. That doesn’t seem to stop lots of people from […]
I captured this sunset a week or two after I crashed the boss’s car. I was struck by the cloud formation at the higher altitude. Below it is another layer of thin clouds giving the patches with less clarity.
