All descriptions fall far short of the beauty and magnificence of these
areas. Each is stunning in its own ways. Earth, air, fire, and water weave themselves together in infinite varieties of landscape. What is temporal or eternal, personal or transcendent is revealed in differing features, textures, and balances. We hope these few words are helpful and speak to your heart and imagination as much as your reason.

Death Valley

(March) Immense, grand vistas, Gold Rush stories, geological oddities. Graveled washes in rocky canyons, sand dunes, vast sky, stillness, sparse vegetation. Time stretching into the distance, brilliant stars, silence punctuated by coyote or raven.

New Mexico Quests

(April and October) A rich and diverse intermingling of mountain, desert, and river ecologies. An area of stunning diversity, grand cottonwoods, oaks, and other deciduous trees thrive alongside ponderosa pine forests and the pinion-juniper cactus zone characteristic of high desert. Rugged mountains descend through dry grass and wildflower meadows to lush river-bottom land. Rich in animal life: deer, mule deer and elk are common.

Mix of lush alpine meadows, stands of aspen, ponderosa pine, and spruce. Summer wildflowers, grand views with high peaks all around. Deep cut valleys with mountain streams. Deer and occasional elk. Deep blue skies as towering cumulus build throughout the day. High country quest.... elevations ranging from 8500 to 10,000 ft.

Stunning mesa-canyon country. Red-rock cliffs striped in Georgia O'Keefe palette. Bright sunshine, brilliant stars, cicadas singing, summer thunderstorms. Pinion, cedar, mule deer, canyon wrens, coyote. Wildflowers, sage fields, prickly pear and cholla cactus in bloom. Pre- and post quest time camped next to river.