GDLeahy
Pro-science, pro-vax, thinks exercise is a fountain of youth. Likes include hiking, photography and paleontology.
- Both the cabin and rocks beneath it consist of 300 million year old marine limestone, so at one point, those rocks were under an ocean. Now, they sit at 10,000 feet above sea level... #newmexico #hiking #geology #photography #Albuquerque #landscape
- The Western Cascade Mountains, near Salt Creek Falls, #oregon. #hiking #photography #pacificnorthwest #landscape #forest
- Having lived in #chicago for several years, I like this one!
- Do you guys think dem leadership is doing a good job? And if so who do you think is doing a good job?
- Not in leadership, but Martin Heinrich and Melanie Stansbury are two in my book.
- The #sonorandesert is one of my favorite places! #Tucson #hiking #desert #photography #landscape #arizona
- #FossilFriday: Parasaurolophus, a #hadrosaur from the upper Cretaceous of #Canada, #Utah, and #NewMexico. Parasaurolophus is well known to fans of the #jurassicpark and #jurassicworld films. #fossil #dinosaur #photography
- The Three Gun Spring Trail near Cedar Crest, #NewMexico has some great views! It's best to hike in the spring or fall, because unlike the higher altitude trails, most of it is exposed to the sun, and one can get very hot hiking it! #Hiking #photography #landscape #Albuquerque #photo #mountains
- I like this photo because it gives a sense of scale to how tall the Sandia Mountains are!
- Valles Caldera National Preserve in #newmexico is peaceful now, but about 1.2 million years ago, a spectacular volcanic eruption created a 14-mile-wide circular depression in the earth which is now the valley in the photo. #volcano #hiking #photography #landscape
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View full threadBased on your profile pic you may be interested in (or already know about) the 2013 Thompson Ridge and Tres Lagunas Fires which halted filming of Longmire. The 2nd season finale was dedicated to firefighters including the Granite Mountain Hotshots, 19 of whom died fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire
- I lived in Tucson during the Yarnell Hill Fire, very tragic... I've seen some of the burn scars from the 2013 fires. Still pretty extensive!
- Hiking the Pino Trail, where snow doesn't completely leave the higher elevations until May! #hiking #Albuquerque #photography #landscape #newmexico
- Since it's #nursesweek, here's an illustration by the artist #banksy depicting nurses as superheroes. This was produced during the #COVID pandemic in 2020.
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- It is a gorgeous place, no doubt!
- I was introduced to Valles Caldera by way of the TV show Longmire. It was used as the location for Walt's cabin. My decades old geology classes kicked in while watching and I thought "that looks like a volcanic crater complete with lava domes", so I looked it up and sure enough it was.
- That's very cool!
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- Those might be them, it's hard to tell from the angle. The third photo down in this article show the sisters on the left side of the pic: www.nmnaturalhistory.org/volcanoes/al...
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- You migh be able to see the "Three Sisters" from that altitude, depending on what direction you're arriving. They are a series of three hotspot volcanoes lined up in a row. They were formed the same way the Hawaiian Island chain was formed, just on dry land.
- The Clearlake Caldera is also pretty active. 100 mini earthquakes a day to remind us it's here.
- There is definitely still some volcanic activity in the area, as evidenced by the extensive geothermal systems which have been identified: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Yep! I lived in the Mojave for nearly three years.
- The #sonorandesert of #Arizona is full of life, you just have to look for it... #hiking #desert #landscape #photography #tucson
- The #LaLuzTrail is my favorite trail to hike in the #sandiamountains of #NewMexico. It's not an easy hike, though. Some sections are very narrow, and become treacherous in winter. There's also an altitude change of 4,000 feet. #hiking #photography #landscape
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- The Sandias are great! One time, I took the tram up, and was planning to take it back down, but the winds picked up so much that it was unsafe to ride the tram, so I and a few other hikers hitched a ride down to the base with tram employees down a back road.
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- It was nice. When I lived in Albuquerque, the trailhead was about 20 minutes from my apartment!
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- Thanks! The High Finance restaurant was torn down a few years ago. It's replacement is called Ten-3: ten3tram.com
- #FossilFriday: The fan favorite Stegosaurus, from the upper Jurassic of the Western United States. This specimen, nicknamed "Sophie," is on display @nhm-london.bsky.social.
- One of my most exciting hikes was when I encountered a western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) on the Embudito Trail in #newmexico. Adult size is typically 4-5 feet in length; the longest documented snake was 7 feet in length. #hiking #photography #reptiles #Albuquerque #snakes
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- Thanks! Yes, if you leave them alone, they'll leave you alone. It knew I was there, but I was not aggressive towards it.
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- Thank you! I've hiked in the Jemez area several times. There are some beautiful trails up there.
- Sometimes when hiking, one encounters the locals. This is a Prairie rattlesnake, Crotalus viridus, which I saw while hiking the east side of the Sandia Mountains in #newmexico. It let me know it was not happy I was there... #hiking #snakes #photography #albuquerque #reptiles
- Some hiking trails in #newmexico exhibit geological features known as hoodoos. The harder rock on top (known as a caprock) protects the softer rock beneath from wind and rain. If the caprock is lost, the underlying rock will erode away. #hiking #hoodoos #geology #photography #landscape
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- Very true, it's a great example!
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- Here's more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_...
- The first Saturday is rapidly approaching, and it's Kentucky Derby Day! www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing...
- The Piedra Lisa Trail in #newmexico, from the north trailhead. #Albuquerque #hiking #photography #landscape #mountains
- The stepwise progression of high BMI prevalence over time underscores the need for proactive interventions. Although sample sizes for BMI ≥60 kg/m2 remain small, the consistency of trends across survey cycles suggests a real and growing public health issue. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
- #FossilFriday: Gomphotherium productum, a four-tusked proboscidean from the middle Miocene (16-14 million years ago) of North America. On display @nhm-london.bsky.social
- A thunderstorm drenches Albuquerque, seen from the North Crest Trail in the Sandia Mountains. #Albuquerque, #newmexico #hiking #photography #thunderstorm
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- I've been there several times! It is beautiful!
- #FossilFriday: The British Museum of Natural History has many famous fossils, but perhaps none more famous than the first bird, Archaeopteryx. #bird #dinosaur #fossil
- This is what happens when you're a tree at the top of the Sandia Mountains and you get buffeted by high winds at 10,000 feet every day... #newmexico #albuquerque #hiking #photography #forest #mountains
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- Like this one!
