Daily Postcard: The Valles Caldera National Preserve has plenty of snow for skiing and snowshoeing as shown here Thursday. Visitors may drive to the Cabin District and go from there or ski from N.M. 4. The managers at the Valles Caldera have come up with a new system for issuing permits to visit the ‘backcountry’  to reserve a drive into the Caldera beyond the cabins, visit recreation.gov, a national public land reservation system. Courtesy/VCNP