Sounds like the club needs to build or buy a 🌶️🌶️🌶️ roaster :bounce: and schedule an annual chile run or send one person with a uhaul and have a roasting in the pines camp out.
Yes, you are correct!
When I lived in Springerville everyone considered McNary, Pinetop-Lakeside as the same place - McNary was the poor section.
The McNary Wiki page has another shot of the store with snow instead of grass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNary,_Arizona
I've been eating Hatch chile for 57 years ever since my parents move to New Mexico in 1965. It was only after I got out of the Navy and moved to Arizona that I started annual trips to Hatch. It is definitely the highest cost way of getting your chile supply in, so I usually make it part of...
What I used to do was fill a quart bag with chile, freeze it, and then later defrost it just enough to cut the quart sized lump into smaller cubes and then refreeze them.
One year I thought about using ice cube trays instead. It is a lot faster and the end result is a whole chile instead of...
Chile Fanatic
The roasted chile is put into a large plastic bag. I keep the chile sealed hot in the large bag and drive to a few miles before Deming and then break it down into smaller bags. This completes the roasting process and I buy ice in Deming for the ride home. If I don't ice the...
Few mo stumpies
View down over White Sands
Friday's campsite
Heading down off the mountain Saturday morning
Hatch, New Mexico
Got to Hatch in time to see the parade for the annual Chile Festival
The destination - I have been coming to the "Chile Fanatic" store for over a quarter century
There were an incredible number of stumps near my Thursday's campsite outside of Cloudcroft. Most of them were from fallen trees - I think because the ground is so rocky the roots didn't penetrate very deep and a mighty wind blew a lot of them down.
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Go Army!
Forest???
Looking westward from Cloudcroft, New Mexico over the White Sands towards the mountains.
Old railroad trestle heading up towards Cloudcroft.
Camped outside of Cloudcroft.
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Sun finally popped over the cloud bank.
Fun stop at White Sands National Monument.
Selfie
I wonder how long this little guy has been out here on the dunes?
Bare toes make quite an "impression" in the loose sand.
piks
I have no idea what kind of flower this is, but it looks interesting.
Camped at the BLM campground at Aguirre Spring. I hate camping in developed campgrounds but I was really tired from driving and this was convenient (purty too!) $7.00 per night so kinda a bargain.
Alamogordo, New...
Pine tree outside Springerville growing new pine cones.
Night time fun photos
Luna Lake outside Alpine Arizona - not too big but rite purty!
Forest just East of Alpine
This is the crick that drains Luna Lake
I think I see fishies
Time for my annual Hatch Chile run. I took an entire week off this year so I could take a slow ride to Hatch with lotz of detours.
First detour was to Phoenix where I replaced my daughter's headlights on her 2013 Subaru Forester. I have tried almost every brand of polishing tool & majik...