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 N M Motorcycle Run Ray Wylie takes a ride through New Mexico. On the way, he visits Santa Fe, Madrid (the location for the set of Maggie's Diner from the movie Wild Hogs), Hyde Memorial State Park, Tesuque, Taos, Red River, Angel Fire, the Rio Grande Gorge, Chama and Pagosa Springs.
Known by some as New Mexico Bike Week, the Annual Memorial Day Motorcycle Rally (May 23 - 26, 2008) in Red River, New Mexico is a popular rally destination due to its scenic location and great climate. Centrally located in the beautiful Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range of New Mexico, the rally is surrounded by 1.5 million pristine acres of the Carson National Forest.
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 Snowboardig in Taos Taos Ski Valley has some of the best terrain in New Mexico..., and perhaps North America. 4200+ people there and we rode up to the lifts most of the day! They say the lot, which holds 4800ish, fills up before the mountain. Taos is a very nice mountain and we will be going back next season! It was awesome to be a part of this epic event!
Taos Ski Valley is a village and alpine ski resort in Taos County, New Mexico, United States. Until March 19, 2008, it was one of the few resorts to prohibit snowboarding; officials announced the change several months in advance. The climate, culture, and geography resemble a Swiss village, including an elected city council. The ski area, Taos Ski Valley, Inc., was founded by Rhoda and Ernie Blake, and is still managed by the Blake family. It has a one to one ratio of expert to beginner/intermediate terrain, and has the highest rated ski school in North America. |
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 Over Meteor Crater The Barringer Meteorite Crater (also known as "Meteor Crater") is a gigantic hole in the middle of the arid sandstone of the Arizona desert. A rim of smashed and jumbled boulders, some of them the size of small houses, rises 150 feet above the level of the surrounding plain. The crater itself is nearly a mile wide, and 570 feet deep.
When Europeans first discovered the crater, the plain around it was covered with chunks of meteoritic iron - over 30 tons of it, scattered over an area 8 to 10 miles in diameter.
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 Snowboarding "On March 19th the venerable Taos Ski Valley opens to snowboarding for the very first time. We wondered what this will mean to a place that many have come to know as a skiers sanctuary."
Jean Mayer: "It's really love for the winter sports that we want to encourage. That's why for example now there was a little bit of a fuss about Taos Ski Valley being involved with snowboarding. Most of our guests, three generations, four generations, and they tell me, 'Jean, we'd loved to keep coming but our children, our kids, they snowboard so we can't, we have to go elsewhere now. And when you hear that often and often enough, well maybe now it's time. |
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 Madrid Day Trip Madrid is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. It is part of the Santa Fe, New Mexico Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The population was 149 at the 2000 census. The ending of the 2007 film, Wild Hogs was set and filmed in the town. Today Madrid (pronounced MAD-rid) has become an artists community with galleries lining Route 14 (the Turquoise Trail). It still has remnants of its past with the Mineshaft Tavern and the Coal Mine Museum.
Located just south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the mineral rich Ortiz Mountains, Madrid is in the oldest coal mining region in New Mexico. There is evidence of primitive mining in the Madrid area as early as the mid-1850's. Today Madrid with a quiet residential area and a busy main street, filled with merchants and artisans welcome visitors from across the world. |
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