Sangre de Cristos

The taibone of the Rocky Mountains. Storrie Lake is just to the north of Las Vegas, NM on Hwy 518, 25 miles south of Mora. Las Vegas is on the high plains with the mountains to the west. The second picture is Mora [behind the trees] at the bottom of the Mora Valley that I live in. The La Jicaritas [part of the Sangre de Cristos] are to the west.

"The Sangre de Cristo Mountains are one of the longest mountain chains on Earth. They stretch from Poncha Pass, Colorado, in the north to Glorieta Pass, New Mexico, in the south. There are ten peaks over 14,000' high in the range, more than two dozen over 13,000'." From: Sangre de Cristos