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A nice day climbing beautiful desert basalt cracks perched high above the Rio Grande, and just below the Los Alamos firing range.

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The warning sign details exactly which ordinance we should be worried about

Mark reads the sign carefully, and hopes to find a purple grenade

A view of the canyon

Basalt cliffs rising out of the desert

Of course, the sun dives behind a cloud just as we arrive

Dylan's rope on the brown basalt

There appears to be a Syncline here

Kate working out some of the tricky moves of Upper Kor's Crack (5.9)

Mark taking pictures of my butt

Ann starts with a clean ascent of the wide chimney on Chuckawalla (5.8)

Ann is totally grooving on Chuckwalla (5.8)

Mark belays Ann while Dylan grabs some pictures

Clouds over the desert sky

Ann on the upper slabs

Such a pretty, sunny, cliff

Mark belays in his stylish Adventure Trousers!

Ann models the warm poofy jacket

Liv likes New Mexico

Mark jams his way up Lower Kor's Crack (5.10)

Mark stems the beautiful diherdral in the afternoon sun

Dylan gets some good pictures of Mark climbing

Dylan enjoying in the wind and sun

Mark belaying above the canyon

Dylan jams the tight fingers start of Lower Kor's Crack

Dylan jamming in the desert

Ann and Mark make a good penut gallery

Cholla and Canyons in the New Mexico evening

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