Timy Fairfield learned to climb in the Sandias before climbing was cool. Now a bouldering legend, he boosts the sport from his Duke City home.

Author: Jason Strykowski
Waterfall Hunter
by Jason Strykowski photos by Ryan Heffernan

Doug Scott may be best known for his sculptures, but art hasn’t been his only quest. He’s spent the past 30 years seeking—and finding—New Mexico’s hidden waterfalls.
Taking the Plunge
by Jason Strykowski photos by Tantri Wija, Chris Corrie, Jen Judge

Extreme kayaker Ed Lucero helped to pioneer the sport on the Ríos of New Mexico.
Mountain Man
by Jason Strykowski photos by Grayson Schaffer

Guide extraordinaire Dave Hahn may be a global mountaineering nomad, but it’s New Mexico that he calls home.
Home on the Range
by Jason Strykowski photos by Peter Mountain © Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Jerry Bruckheimer Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Decades after the Lone Ranger last hit the silver screen, the classic Western hero rises from the dead yet again this summer, thanks to a posse of proven box-office kings. Trading tricorns for ten-gallons, the crew behind Disney’s and Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ billion-dollar Pirates of the Caribbean franchise began production of The Lone Ranger in Albuquerque in February 2012, and the film opens nationwide on July 3.
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