A view up Cuchara Valley to Trinchere Peak in the Sangre de Cristo range.
The Sangres are a block-faulted granite range extending north from Santa Fe all the way to Salida, Colorado (west of Colorado Springs).
They are among the youngest of Colorado mountains, with faults which have been active within the last 10,000 years.

The ski area (right) is an on-again, off-again number that lacks only snow to make a go of it.
But it's the only ski area accessible to Texas and Kansas that doesn't require crossing a high mountain pass.

Patty Bugner, an artist from Wichita, sent me a watercolor version of this photo. It can be seen here:

http://www.pbase.com/fletcher_hill/image/101361491