19/365 Bare Branches
As blue as the sky is it was still bitterly cold and only just above freezing when I took this. Way off in the distance is Ladron Peak an isolated, highly visible peak in central New Mexico, lying about 50 miles southwest of Albuquerque. Ladron Peak is the only major peak in the compact range known as the Sierra Ladrones, which lies between the Rio Puerco to the east and the Rio Salado to the southwest.
The name of the peak means thief. Navajo and Apache raiding parties, and later Hispanic and Anglo rustlers, used the mountains as hideouts, hence the name.
Also for #39/125 formation: 125 pictures in 2025
19/365 Bare Branches
As blue as the sky is it was still bitterly cold and only just above freezing when I took this. Way off in the distance is Ladron Peak an isolated, highly visible peak in central New Mexico, lying about 50 miles southwest of Albuquerque. Ladron Peak is the only major peak in the compact range known as the Sierra Ladrones, which lies between the Rio Puerco to the east and the Rio Salado to the southwest.
The name of the peak means thief. Navajo and Apache raiding parties, and later Hispanic and Anglo rustlers, used the mountains as hideouts, hence the name.
Also for #39/125 formation: 125 pictures in 2025