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Tiny Copper Canyon towns no one overnights in: Cusarare
Cusárare is one of those places that some people visit but very few experience overnight. This is a Tarahumara town and the local culture is awash in the distant Indian ways. People speak but are quiet and reserved. Colors are brilliant. Kids are smiley. We often visit this little village and usually stay overnight. Very [...]
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Evening above Copper Canyon. I reach into my word basket to get it on paper and it is desperately empty. There is not much that that is truly iconic in Copper Canyon except these first and last bits of the day. The sun (el sol) leaves just bits of yellow on the cliffs and [...]
Full StorySpoon carver in Cusasare, Copper Canyon, Mexico.
Spoonmaking in Copper Canyon This little guy was sitting beside the museum at the mission in Cusárare one day and I hardly noticed him. Then I realized that he was making something and beside him was the raw product and the detritus of his craft.
Full StoryHow to tie Huarachis…footwear of the Raramuri
What are huarachis? These simple little sandals are worn year round by the natives of the Sierra Madres. Christopher McDougal has written about them in “Born to Run”. Often Tarahumara feet will be dry, crusted, and sometimes a little wounded from banging around the hills in these things. They do protect pretty well actually and [...]
Full StoryCopper Canyon Train Trips…Not in June
This is the one month I try NOT to schedule trips. The Sierras are at the end of the long dry season- rains will start in a couple weeks or so. This month is usually hot, even up in the hills and the dust is hard to settle. Once the rains start in July, things [...]
Full StoryBorn to Run, the Tarahumaras Really Run!
The best selling book from Christopher Mcdougall last year brought this unknown tribe to world attention. Born to Run was a huge and quality introduction to not only the running prowess of the Tarahumara (Raramuri) Indians, but also to their culture and ways as well. On our trips to Copper Canyon, we overlap with these folks alot, and [...]
Full StoryA few of Dave’s favorite things…
In no particular order, a few of the things I truly love: 1.Running along Lakeshore Boulevard after sunset in Chicago on a warm January day. 2.A snowstorm alone in a tent in April in Red Canyon, Zirkel Wilderness, Colorado 3.Madrugada (the dark before dawn) high over Yosemite. 4. The Copper Canyon train rolling up the Chihuahua [...]
Full StoryGoing Down – Copper Canyon, Chihuahua, Mexico (Part 4)
Eric and Karen of Trans Americas Journey are not only great journalists, they are tough and eager hikers. They proved it on this descent into Copper on arguably one of the toughest trails I have seen. Here is their account… “Honestly, this trail was one of the hardest we’ve ever done, not because it was [...]
Full StoryWAY Off the Train – Copper Canyon, Chihuahua, Mexico (Part 2)
I am bringing you parts and links to this incredible series fro Eric and Karen at Trans Americas Journey. These two were my good companions last Fall for almost two weeks in the unknown and known places of the majestic reaches of Copper Canyon Mexico. We made contact on twitter and planned out a grand venture [...]
Full StoryOver the Border with Trans Americas
Last October I took Karen Catchpole and Eric Mohl of Trans Americas Journey to Copper Canyon and their excellent blog articles are something I want you to enjoy. Here is the first of part 1: “We’ve done it plenty of times but we still feel a twinge of uneasiness whenever we cross a border. The [...]
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