Heading to the Valles Caldera National Preserve New Year’s Day, this is the first sharp hairpin turn beginning the climb from the Back Gate area up into the Jemez Mountains. Photo by Jim Gourdoux

Looking miles across the Valles Caldera New Year’s Day with snow clouds and sunshine. Photo by Jim Gourdoux

The view looking northeast from a mesa top New Year’s Day near Bandelier National Monument. Photo by Jim Gourdoux