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u/jeffdrafttech · 16 pointsr/Albuquerque

Because this is rising and will be seen a bit, I’ll add more info so you can see this with your own eyes. It is much more beautiful in real life (this is a crappy cell phone image). It’s really sad how few people use this trail.

Parking for the trail is here: Elena Gallegos Open Space
7100 Tramway Boulevard Northeast, Albuquerque, NM 87122 https://goo.gl/maps/mibey2hPHG2Mfxep8 . It is open until 9PM and they charge $2 to park (or $30 for a year if you use it a lot, like I do). It is almost never crowded, even on weekends and most of the few cars in the lots are bicyclists using nearby trails. There is no cycling or bicycles on the Pino Trail itself outside of the EG recreation area, which is nice.

This is a great trail for beginners to use to grow stronger. Just bring plenty of water and take breaks when needed. I’m 70 lb overweight and was able to reach the crest after walking the trail a couple times per week for a couple months to build my strength and endurance. It takes me about 1.5 hours to reach the spot where the photo was taken, but a thin young fit person could likely reach it in an hour. If I were to walk to the photo location and back down, I would carry at least 1/2 gallon of water, but if you’re more fit and faster you can likely carry less. I’ve seen very-fit trail runners this far and even higher not carry any water, but that is nuts.

The views in every direction are spectacular on every inch of the trail, beginning the moment you step out of the car. The city, the mountains, the foothills, all of it is breathtaking and it changes constantly as you climb higher on the trail. Even the trees and flowers and other vegetation change frequently.

From the car, you walk about 0.75mi in desert area and there are quite a few cyclists depending on the trail you park near, but everyone is polite and shares the space well. After you reach the east edge of the EG area 0.75mi from the car, cycling is forbidden. All the trails in the EG parking area lead to the Pino Trail Cibola national forest area if you just keep going east (toward the mountain). There are lots of signs. In this area, and for the next 0.75 mi into the national forest area you are pretty exposed to the sun (few opportunities for shade). Don’t forget sunscreen and insect repellant and wear a hat. After you are about 1.5 miles from the car there are many more trees, you will be in shade about half the time for the next couple miles. This hike isn’t too bad even when it is very hot as long as you bring plenty of water and rest when you feel tired. When I started, I had to rest every 0.2 miles or so, but it doesn’t take long to get strong if you go often. I can go at a slow walking pace for a couple miles after some practice. No matter how far you go, the views never disappoint, and the next time you return you are a little bit stronger and go a little farther. Before long, you find yourself staring through oak bushes onto the plains east of the Sandias (the top of the trail at the crest is just under five miles from the parking area).

I’m pretty new in town and I have been learning about local outdoor hikes from this book: “60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Albuquerque.” I know there are many more than 60 great hikes just in the city limits, but this book does a great job rating trails for difficulty and contains plenty of detail and maps and the author is obviously in love with hiking in the city. His enthusiasm is contagious. I keep a copy of that book on my phone ($10 for Kindle edition). I tried using a few apps to find trail info, but the reviews and ratings in this real book are better. I like the gps maps in the apps, but I like the “60 Hikes” book better as a guide.

u/funbob · 24 pointsr/Albuquerque

I'm going to approach this from a personal safety perspective. I'm unsure if you are looking for personal safety tips or a more grand view of what can be done as a community to improve safety. But I strongly believe everyone needs to take a personal responsibility for their own safety.

  • Buy a gun. Learn how to use and become proficient with it. New Mexico is a shall issue state for concealed carry permits, just need to take the training class and pass the background check. If you don't like or are uncomfortable with the prospect of carrying a gun, I would still at least recommend a shotgun for the home.
  • Walk with a sense of purpose and maintain an awareness of your surroundings at all times. That means face not buried in a phone screen, headphones on, etc. Keep your head on a swivel, constantly be taking in your surroundings, learn how to discreetly assess other people in your vicinity. Always have a plan for escape, evasion, or defense.
  • Never find yourself stuck fiddling for your keys in a parking lot or outside your home. Always have your keys or key fob ready and minimize the time you're standing outside your car or house in a potentially vulnerable situation.
  • Install a tracking device in your car. If it is stolen, recovery becomes easier. Available from your mobile carrier for a nominal monthly fee.
  • Doors locked and windows rolled up at all times in your car.
  • Never leave the car running or warming up unattended. I hope EVERYONE in Albuquerque knows this by now.
  • Front and rear dash cams in your car. Albuquerque drivers are awful and this is very cheap insurance in the event of an incident.
  • Drive a manual transmission car if you are able to. It's a dying skill and a hilarious number of car thieves and carjackers have been thwarted by the elusive manual transmission.
  • Park your car in the garage if you have one. Garage full of crap? Rent a dumpster or get a friend with a pickup truck and get to cleaning. Cars last longer and look nicer when garage kept and it's sooo nice to get into a car that hasn't been sitting and baking in the summer sun or freezing in the dead of winter.
  • In that same vein, enter and exit your home from the garage if you have one. It's a great buffered entry and exit system. Be in your car before you open the garage, and close the garage after you pull in and before you get out of your car. You are never leaving yourself exposed outside this way. I NEVER enter or exit my house through the front door. The only time my front door is ever open is for delivery people.
  • When stopped in traffic, leave yourself an escape route. Select good lanes for escape and leave enough room from the car in front of you to be able to drive your way out of trouble if needed. Carjackings are unfortunately becoming a more and more common thing in Albuquerque, don't leave yourself vulnerable to someone approaching by foot on the street or trying to box you in with another vehicle.
  • Keep the interior of your car clean. No belongings in sight, no change in the cupholders, phone chargers, electronics, nothing at all that could possibly entice someone cruising a parking lot and looking into car windows. Anyone peering into your car should see... nothing. If you drive an SUV or hatchback with an open cargo area, invest in a cargo cover and use it.
  • Doors and windows closed and locked at all times in your home. If you need to keep windows cracked for a swamp cooler or whatever, install some sort of stopper to prevent the window from being opened all the way.
  • Keep all shades and blinds closed, especially at night. You can see inside of a house from a very long distance away at night. No sense in showcasing your stuff and people do cruise through neighborhoods at night, making notes and looking for easy scores. Deny them that ability.
  • Get a dog, or two. Train them to bark at people knocking on the door, then to go to their crates or sit calmly with a command if it's someone you're expecting. And besides, dogs are awesome.
  • Put a no soliciting sign on your door. Surprisingly effective at getting rid of a lot of the door to door riff raff, a large portion of whom are really just people trying to case houses. It's low hanging fruit, but actually works fairly well.
  • If you have a two story home or otherwise live on an upper floor, have an escape ladder. In the event of a home invasion or something more mundane like a fire, it can be the difference between life and death.
  • Install a monitored, well signed alarm system and cameras. Don't be that guy on the street whose house is not protected by and showing signage for an alarm system. Guess whose house is going to be first to be broken into? The goal here is to not make your house impossible to break into, just to make it harder than the other guys house.
  • Maintain the illusion of someone being home even when you're not. That means leave some lights on, leave some music playing, or get one of those nifty TV simulators.
  • Check your home exterior lighting. Make sure it all works. Install the brightest lights that won't piss off your neighbors and leave them on 24/7.
  • Don't leave anything of value in your backyard or any implements that could facilitate entry into your house. No power tools, garden implements, toys, ladders, anything. Leave nothing in your backyard that could even remotely entice someone to hop over the fence or wall and help themselves. That stuff belongs stored in the garage or securely locked in a shed.
  • Trash bins secured where people can't get to them. Shred important documents or anything with personally identifying info before throwing it away.
  • Take the time to get to know your neighbors a bit. If your neighborhood is active on Nextdoor or has a Facebook group, join it. A neighborhood where the neighbors talk to and look out for each other is a safe neighborhood.
  • Speaking of social media, don't telegraph your actions, locations, or the fact you're going to be away on vacation for a week. In this social media addicted world, this is easier said than done, but think before you post something that could be potentially compromising from a safety or security perspective. Turn off location embedding on your smartphone's camera.

    Remember, it's not the job of the police to prevent crime, it's their job to respond to crime. When seconds count and your life is potentially on the line, the police are minutes away. It's up to you to be proactive about your safety and have the means and ability to defend yourself.
u/Kendallsan · 4 pointsr/Albuquerque

My husband has made me several crazy delicious batches of passionfruit beers. He used this:

http://www.amazon.com/Concentrate-Passion-16-9-Ounce-Plastic-Bottles/dp/B004746V26?ie=UTF8&keywords=da%20fruta&qid=1465427487&ref_=sr_1_1_a_it&sr=8-1

Prime shipping is free - if you don't have it you likely know someone who does. Worth it to ask around. If you can't find anyone I'll order it for you - PM me.

He also used frozen Goya puree, which we used to be able to get at El Mezquite Market on San Pedro and Central, but has been scarce for a while now. We tried Pro's Ranch Market (now called Los Altos Ranch Market) too, but it's been a while since we looked.

But Goya does make a great puree, if you can find it. Best bet is probably a Hispanic market - we didn't try them all, and like I said, it's been a while.

Hope you can find some and that your saison turns out wonderfully - there is nothing better than a good passionfruit beer!

edit: there is also this one - http://www.davinehawaii.com/product/passion-fruit-puree-3-bottles/ $45 plus $15 shipping. never tried it but i'm going to get some!

u/thejumboj · 1 pointr/Albuquerque

Paying $100 to Centurylink for their modem partially defeats the purpose especially since there are cheaper options available.
They are making a lot of money off of people by charging rental fees. At $15 a month for rental fee you basically pay $100 for your modem in 6 months. Every month you retain service after that is pure profit for centurylink. (Well probably way before that, these modems probably only cost them a couple dollars since they order them in bulk from china.)

Too be clear your suggestion is good, but I just don't feel giving Centurylink more money for attempting to screw people is a good idea since there are cheaper options available.
Here's an example of a used one that's only $50.

tl;dr Scour the internet for VDSL2 modems and profit. Maybe Centyurylink will start providing DSL modems for free like Verizon does.

u/boot20 · 4 pointsr/Albuquerque

That's pretty much in the ballpark, but chile is pretty variable by location. I would suggest buying chile from San Antonio, NM, Socorro, NM, or Hatch, NM...if it isn't one of those places, the chile probably won't be good.

If you know what you are getting into, there are some good places in Albuquerque, but you kind of have to know what you are looking for.

As a side note, do you have a ricer and a spare blender? You'll need that to sauce up the red chile.

Also, get some green (get it roasted and pealed), chop it up and add some garlic powder and bam...instant awesome.

u/GreySoulx · 1 pointr/Albuquerque

SAS or Kohls....

Also, consider Amazon if you know your size well enough - I bought some shoes from Amazon (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B007BL5F6A/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_iO1mDb0N76CBW) that were <$100 and really, really comfortable and a great fit.

u/Kali21x · 1 pointr/Albuquerque

Hey,

I would recommend using this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D1CX83A

Works perfectly and is chemical-free. Worked like a charm for me. =)

u/generalchingon · 2 pointsr/Albuquerque

Good advice, but a few more addendums I would leave:

  • Instead of leaving your outside lights on 24/7, which thieves may catch on with, and to me , it gives the appearance that someone is on vacation, but some simple programmable timers: https://www.amazon.com/Programmable-Enerlites-HET01-C-Settings-REQUIRED/dp/B01KG712PI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1499777296&sr=8-3&keywords=timer+light+switch
    for the outside lights. You can adjust them to turn on/off at random times based on day of week, or just at dawn/dusk.

  • On social media, make sure your posts, etc, are friends only, or seriously locked down. Even with friends-of-friends, one of your friends may have a shady neighbor/family member/friend that will see your posts about leaving town.

  • When recycling, remove the labels off your packages from deliveries, and throw them separately. If someone even just glances in your recycle bin, and sees lots of boxes from Amazon, etc, they may just come back and stake out the joint for packages left at the door.
  • For the vagrants/homeless, if you are walking around town, put a single dollar in your pocket. I'm not advocating giving to everyone that asks for one, but there are occasionally those ones that are clearly off, either mentally, or because they are on drugs, and it's easier to just give a $1 and make a quick exit, than to let it escalate.
u/reddit455 · -9 pointsr/Albuquerque

>This isn't something you'd want some amateur attempting as it is definitely something that needs professional guidance to do well and most importantly CLEANLY AND SAFELY.

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MILLIONS of people stick needles in their arms EVERY SINGLE DAY.. whether it be for insulin or heroin.

nobody receives special training to use an epipen. stick in leg it about all there is to it.

you could probably learn from a hospital because they need to teach caregivers so nurses don't have to come over every day to inject meds.

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it doesn't sound like they're really concerned about getting it wrong.. take some notes.. maybe.. if you forget.

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https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000660.htm

>Giving an insulin injection
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>To give an insulin injection, you need to fill the right syringe with the right amount of medicine, decide where to give the injection, and know how to give the injection.
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>Your health care provider or a certified diabetes educator (CDE) will teach you all of these steps, watch you practice, and answer your questions. You may take notes to remember the details. Use the information below as a reminder.

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there are plenty if DIY recipes for drip hydration.

https://driphydration.com/blog/how-to-make-a-diy-hangover-prevention-kit/

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and you get IV bags on amazon a hundred at a time.

https://smile.amazon.com/Medline-DYND74261-Start-Kits-Chloraprep/dp/B004GC2LTQ/

needles are separate

https://smile.amazon.com/Piercing-Needles-Tattoo-Gauge-Catheter/dp/B01H3PKH34

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Drip bar: Should you get an IV on demand?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/drip-bar-should-you-get-an-iv-on-demand-2018092814899

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NFL guys just drink pedialyte.

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Abbott Taps Odell Beckham Jr. To Promote Pedialyte For Adults

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2019/09/06/abbott-labs-signs-odell-beckham-jr-to-promote-pedialyte-for-adults/#2f040f0a7845

u/gribble_me_timbers · 98 pointsr/Albuquerque

They aren't exactly for erosion control, flood protection, advancing amphibious armies or catching debris - but tangentially they kind of are. The main goal of the jetty jack project was river channelization and bank protection.

The Rio Grande comes out of the mountains north of here and spreads out into the relatively flat area of Albuquerque as it finds its way down to Las Cruces. This loss of gradient means that the river loses velocity/energy and drops its sediment. With its sediment load kind of in its own way, the river continuously has to meander widely back and forth across the valley to move south.

In the early days of settlement, the valley was swampy because of this meandering pattern of the river. The floods would come through and if your fields were in the path of the new floodplain, well, you were flooded. And if you were on the banks and the river happened to scour out your fields, well that just sucks.

So to address some of these issues (in addition with projects by the MRGCD and other flood control agencies), the 'Kellner Jack' system was put in place to tack the river down. Tacking the river down is key here -- they wanted to reign in the river and get it to conform to a more predictable pattern. These jacks were installed by the hundreds of thousands at key locations to slow the water enough so that it would drop sediment and bury the jack field, bringing the banks closer together. With this, there was no more meandering and the river would run a relatively straight shot through the middle valley, protecting lands on the banks for agriculture, and improving the routing efficiency of floods.

These were massively effective at channelization and I *think the reason we have a bosque there today, although there has been a slough of unintended consequences. Kathy Grassel wrote a really good paper on them (linked below) that goes into more detail on the history and possibility of removal and restoration activities. Also is the book, Reining in the Rio Grande, another good source of info on the broader topic of the Rio

Kathy Grassel's paper

https://www.fws.gov/bhg/Literature/Jetty%20Jacks%20pub%20version.pdf

Reigning in the Rio Grande

https://www.amazon.com/Reining-Rio-Grande-People-Water/dp/0826349439

u/oldpeopl · 2 pointsr/Albuquerque

You'll laugh and I am FULLY AWARE this is not professional, but on the off chance you just meant really sharp knives this has been almost irreplaceable for me for the last few years Work Sharp WSKTS-KO Knife and Tool Sharpener Ken Onion Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EJ9CQKA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_PkoyzbPZV48QA can do teeny knives all the way up to shovels! Really great buy in my opinion.

u/Illipid · 1 pointr/Albuquerque

I use this

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EJ9CQKA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_PkoyzbPZV48QA

Followed by some stropping on my belt. Wickedly sharp.

Otherwise, Precison Sharpening FTW.