"After completing my last hike, climbing the Jicarita peaks in the Pecos Wilderness, cumulating with the final peak, Little Jicarita Peak East, I finally hiked all of the 12 thousand and 13 thousand foot peaks in New Mexico…………….that are possible………. or so I thought. When I returned someone added South Penitente Peak, elevation 12,110, to the list & I am adding Peak 12027 which was mentioned in a great, recently published book, “The High Peaks of New Mexico.” I decided to hike these peaks and an 11 thousand foot peak that I needed, Peak 11385. In the process I had to hike quite a few repeat peaks. Just a note - there are 3, 12K peaks that are not possible to hike in New Mexico. They are on the Taos Indian reservation. I recently made a 3 night trip to Taos with my wife and talked to many people seeing if I could pay for a guide to hike those peaks and did not have any luck. The peaks are restricted to Taos Pueblo members and someone would have to be a disrespectful sneak, risking jail and being shot at to hike them. My son and I were shot at just hiking on the edge of the National Forest and their land. They did finally give us permission for the edge peaks. (See my Red Dome Trip Re..." — Phil-Robinson • Aug 9, 2014

"On the morning of October 10, 2008, I, Phil Robinson, my 12 year old daughter Christina and our dog Daisy got up at 5:00, left the house at 5:45, drove to Winsor Trail north of Santa Fe, and started our hike at 7:30. I was carrying a 20 pound pack with food, water and a few emergency items for hiking above 12,000 feet at this time of year. We picked one of the most beautiful weekends to hike. The aspen trees were in their yellow, orange and golden glory. It was a glorious, colorful hike as we started off. Our plan was to do a big loop that we thought was 6 or 7 miles. It turned out to be quite a bit more. We went over a colorful saddle near Aspen Peak and then into the Pecos Wilderness. We followed the Winsor trail below Nambe Lake to Skyline Ridge trail. The weekend before it snowed 10 inches and we began to hike in snow. Our trail turned from fall to winter. At times we could not see the trail so we had to follow the markings on the trees. We hiked along through the trees for quite some time until we got above timberline. The views were incredible! After trudging through the snow we made our first 12K, goal Penitente Peak, 12,249 feet. The views from this point were endless, moun..." — Phil-Robinson • Oct 10, 2008