Law
School Community Personal Wellness Page
All work and no play
makes for a very unbalanced and stressed out law student. This site offers a
guide to local hiking, free yoga, biking, rock
climbing and skiing.
With daily sunshine and
daytime temperatures of between 40-90 degrees year round, New Mexicans are
lucky to be able spend quality time outside…all the time. Take advantage of
this. Get out of here and get outside! For example, take a hike.
HIKES
National
Forest service web site, Sandia Mountains
(Albuquerque).
A list of the many day
hikes:
My Favorites:
Tree Springs Trail,
shady and wooded (moderate, 4-8 miles depending if you go to a lookout or all
the way to the tram).
Travertine Falls, sunny and great for winter (4-5 miles).
Crest
Trail at the top.
a longer drive but less steep and awesome views (as
short or long as you like, a there and back hike).
National
Forest service web site, Santa Fe and Jemez
Mountains.
Big news in the
mountains in early September, Cienega/Sulphur Canyon area closed due to bear activity! How
exciting. Check here for updates. . http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/cibola/news-events/?cid=STELPRDB5388993 The rest of the
Mountain is open.
YOGA
Stress kills
lawyers. Fight back with yoga by joining
a free or low-cost community yoga class, whether you’re flexible and fit or
stiff as a board. See these web sites and look for “community” yoga classes,
free or for a small donation of cash or a personal hygiene item. Check out the
details at these web sites:
Dragonfly
Yoga,
my own yoga studio, fabulous.
High Desert Yoga, close to school in
nob hill.
Lululemon Albuquerque.
BIKE
There are plenty of
opportunities for both road and fat tire biking in the Quirky City. In fact,
Albuquerque features more than 400 miles of on-street bicycle facilities and
multi-use trails in town. See this map. Mountain bikers can also use most of the
mountain hiking trails.
ROCK CLIMB
You can go rock climbing within an hour and a
half of either Albuquerque or Santa Fe in the beautiful Jemez Mountains, a
setting that is also great for hiking.
And be friendly to
your bank account by staying in touch with Albuquerque on the cheap.