...cross posted from I Spy With My Little Eye.
The Jemez Mountains are located about 40 miles northwest of Albuquerque so that makes it pretty convenient. It's not much of a trip...I can plainly see them from my house and there is a small amount of snow up in the higher elevations. They are the remnant of very active volcanic activity about a million years ago although the most recent eruption was about 60,000 years ago. There is still a hot magma pool under the mountains which is responsible for the hot springs. The caldera is clearly visible when you look at the topography of the area. It is almost 15 miles across and was formed when the super volcano collapsed into the magma chamber.
The Las Conchas fire of a couple years ago burned a huge part of the mountains.
