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responsibility for maintenance on all of the improvements within the subdivisions except the unfinished portion of the El Vado Way Bridge in Chalets 1A Amended. The new bridge will provide access to the two lots served by El Vado Place, a new road that branches off El Vado in south Angel Fire.

The village created the Public Improvement District in 2008 to oversee the project, which is being financed by a special levy imposed on the properties included in the district from 2008 to 2038. The levies for 2012-13 varied by parcel, from a low of about $82 to a high of more than $11,000 for the year.

“The factors contributing to your calculations are continually changing by possible refinancing, prepayments to the loan, and advance time of the

next bond call, etc.,” according to the district’s website, www.angelfirepid.com.

The district also gives landowners the opportunity to prepay the entire levy imposed on their properties.

The subdivisions included within the district include Angel Fire West Village, Country Club 1 and 2 Amended/Reamended, Country Club 1A Amended, Country Club 1B Amended, Angel Fire Chalets Unit 4, Angel Fire Village North, Angel Fire Village Unit 2 Block G, Angel Fire Chalets 2G Amended, and Chalets 1A Amended.

For more information, call Public Improvement District Administrator Sally Sollars at 575-377-3483 or visit www.angelfirepid.com.

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Built by John Sutton General Building Contractor Inc. in Angel Fire, this home at 16 Torrey Pines Way was the first to go up in the Angel Fire Public Improvement District.

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BY ERIC FINCHER

New Mexico is known not only for its dry climate, vibrant sunsets and bone-dry climate, but also for the Catholic faith that has been celebrated

throughout the state’s history. Some established as early as the 1600s, many missions

and churches are sprinkled throughout the state. Though the ones in Taos and Santa Fe tend to get more attention, Immaculate Conception Church in Cimarron also has a long and interesting history in the area.

One of the oldest buildings in Cimarron, the church is on the verge of its 150th anniversary.

Like many missions in the area, the church is

constructed with a stucco exterior. But the building has undergone several renovations over its 150-year history.

The original building was constructed using adobe mud bricks, which are still in place under the stucco. It’s believed that the walls of the church are 18 inches thick, possibly to help keep the church warm in the cold months and cool in the summer when temperatures can climb into the 90s.

Adobe construction has always been popular in New Mexico, as many of the Native American tribes in the area used adobe bricks to construct their pueblos. There are two main ingredients to making the bricks: water and mud. To make the bricks stronger, straw, grass or hay is also added before they are placed in the sun to dry.

But adobe buildings require lots of upkeep. If they are

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BY JESSE CHANEY

When entering the courtyard of this Spanish mission-style home inspired by the Alamo, it’s almost hard to believe the man who lives there specializes in

building log houses. “I wanted to build something special, and it’s just out of the

ordinary,” said Mountain Construction owner Eric Hoffmann, who leads an award-winning timber-frame construction team by day and built his mountainside mission home on nights and weekends.

Hoffmann completed the four bedroom, four bathroom home in 2007 on a lot that is more than three-fourths of an acre in size at 76 Taos Drive in Angel Fire.

With its large parapet walls shaped like the front of the historic mission known as the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, the home clearly deviates from the conventional style prevalent throughout the alpine village.

“I’ve seen things that are similar, but I’ve never seen one just like this,” Hoffmann said. “This is its own kind of deal, but it’s based on different ideas that we carried through the whole house.”

The home’s stucco siding and metal roofing made to look like red clay are both true to the mission style. A waist-high wall that surrounds most of the home encloses a large courtyard paved with flagstone, which is accessible via two hand-forged steel gates.

Planting beds on the inside of the wall are filled with raspberry bushes and a variety of other shrubbery during the summer.

“There’s a lot of plants you can’t grow in the mountains, and that gives you more variety of different plants you can

Jennifer and Eric Hoffmann inside their Spanish mission-style home. (Photo by Wende Woolley Photography)


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grow because you have heat off the walls,” Hoffmann said, adding that the extra heat is also a plus during summer nights spent roasting marshmallows over a courtyard fire pit.

Inside the hand-crafted front door Hoffmann made from knotty alder wood is the great room, which is

accented by a cozy wood-burning fireplace with a stone hearth. The fireplace, stained-glass chandelier directly overhead and staircase to the second floor are all marked with the fleur-de-lis symbol common in early architecture.

The great room is flanked by the kitchen on one side and the dining nook on another. Highlights of the kitchen include granite counter tops, cherry wood


MISSION FROM PAGE 33 cabinets and steel appliances. An antique Tiffany chandelier hangs in the dining room.

Also on the ground floor is the master suite, which opens to a hot tub in a private section of the outdoor courtyard. The suite also includes a walk-in closet and private bathroom with a custom shower and jacuzzi tub. The portion of the wall outside a window above the tub obstructs the view into the bathroom

from the outside. “You can see out, but nobody can see in to see

you,” Hoffmann said. “That wasn’t an accident.”The lower level also has a full bathroom with a

shower, a library/office and a laundry room with a large mop sink Hoffmann uses to bathe his dogs.


Above: A bonus living area above the two-car garage is accessible from a second staircase off the laundry room behind the kitchen. Left: A wood-burning fireplace with a stone hearth graces the great room. The fleur-de-lis symbol in the fireplace also appears in the stained-glass chandelier directly overhead and staircase to the second floor. (Photos by Wende Woolley Photography)

The second level of the home is accessible from the custom staircase in the great room, which is made from vintage church pews. The upper level houses three more bedrooms, one of which Hoffmann considers to be a second master suite.

Two of the upstairs bedrooms share a common bathroom, and the suite has its own. One of the upstairs bedrooms has a ladder-accessible loft with just enough room to lie down, and one of them offers views of both nearby Monte Verde Lake and Eagle Nest Lake nearly 15 miles away.

“This is one of the few places you can see both without being way up there,” Hoffmann said.

Off the laundry room behind the kitchen is a second staircase, which was also built with church pews and leads to a bonus living area above the two-car garage. With a stone wood-burning fireplace in one corner, this space is big enough for a bed, couches, a foosball table and other furniture.

From the master suite on the ground floor, Hoffmann said, he could not hear his daughters and their friends in the room above the garage.

Both levels have tile floors with in-floor heat provided by a wood-burning central boiler located outside the home. The boiler is also connected to the domestic hot water system, and propane is used only for the dryer and stove.

Many of the interior walls are painted to look like adobe, and arched entries, custom lighting fixtures, and wire-brushed tongue-and-groove ceilings are found throughout both levels of the home.

The ceilings inside the house are also used in the 108-square-foot casita in the backyard. Heated by a Norwegian wood-burning stove, this 12-by-9-foot structure houses a small living area with two bunk beds overhead.

“We built this for the kids,” Hoffmann said,

adding that he used stucco siding on the inside and outside of the walls in the structure so it can be washed out with a hose.

Because of the many intricate details in this home, Hoffmann said, it was one of the most

Eric Hoffmann hand-crafted the front door from knotty alder wood. (Photo by Wende Woolley Photography)


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difficult ones he has built. “There’s so many details,” he said,

pointing to the flared chimneys on top of the house. “How many chimneys do you see that step out?”

Hoffmann also pointed out the custom Douglas fir beams and vigas that adorn the outside of the home.

“I carved every single one of those to shape,” he said.

Hoffmann built all of the exterior walls with Rastra brand insulated concrete forms, which are pre-formed interlocking blocks joined by steel connectors. Made from 85 percent recycled materials, the blocks are built to be structurally strong, energy-efficient, sound absorbent, non-combustible and resistant to high winds.

Hoffmann restored Victorian mansions before he moved to Angel Fire to build log homes, his wife Jennifer said.

“When we moved into this house, we’d always lived in houses that were over 100 years old,” she said. “And so really, his passion was he just wanted to live in a house that was brand new but felt like it was 100 years old. That was kind of his goal.”

With most of their children now out of the house, however, the Hoffmanns are ready for a change. They plan to give up the Spanish mission home this summer for nothing other than a custom log house.

It’s time to “practice what we preach,” Jennifer said.


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The 108-square-foot casita in the backyard houses a small living area and two bunk beds overhead. (Photo courtesy of Eric Hoffmann)

One of four bedrooms in the home. (Photo by Wende Woolley Photography)


BY ERIC HEINZ

An East Coast man comes to the mountains to open a Mexican restaurant.

Sounds like Sundance Mexican Restaurant was a pretty risky venture. Yet the parents of Sara Nora, who now runs the Red River restaurant with her family, made it a successful eatery for nearly 40 years.

In 1974, Nora’s parents found their home in Red River after her father worked at the Red River Ski Area just after college graduation.

“They’re originally from Virginia in the Washington, D.C. area,” Nora said. “So my dad originally moved out here after he finished college and had worked at the ski area. And then my parents got married, and they

eventually both came out here.”Nora’s parents continued to work at the ski area for

a few years, running the restaurant at the top of the chair lift.

“An opportunity came up where they could buy this, and so they did,” Nora said, adding that the restaurant was always intended to serve Mexican food. “It’s a casual restaurant, and we prepare everything from scratch. We make our own sauces, make our own beans, so we do everything from scratch.”

Sundance is operated by Nora, her husband and her parents. She said her parents are in the process of retiring, but they still work at the restaurant often.

Working with family, Nora said, has been a positive experience. And quality has always been their top

Sundance approaches 40 años in Red River

Pictured from left are the Sundance sign, the restaurant’s seating area and its operator Sara Nora. (Photos by Eric Heinz)

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At Cimarroncita ranch retreat about eight miles outside of Cimarron, getting away from it all takes on both historic and modern meaning.

Back in timeConstructed in the 1930s, the retreat originally was

planned to be a hunting ground for people passing through. But after a few years, it was transformed into a girls camp.

“Originally, this was going to be ... a happy hunting ground,” owner Alán Huerta said. “It was an incentive for people to invest so they could continue their trek up the canyon. Now we have re-branded it, shall we say, into a historic ranch retreat.”

Huerta and his wife, Minnette Burges, own the retreat.

Some of the facilities at the retreat include a dinning hall named “Frijoles” (beans), the Laguna Lodge, and some cabins that are a “work in progress at this time,” Huerta said.

Murals in the dining room were painted during the late 1930s.

About 24 to 26 people are able to stay at the ranch at one time.

There also are other buildings at the retreat. “That trading post was the stage(coach) stop; it’s

been a hideout, a post office and a trading post,” Huerta said.

According to the Cimarroncita website, the inception of the retreat was intended for many things.

“Used by (N)ative (A)merican tribes for summer hunting grounds and by United States Cavalry for resting horses on its lush river pastures, by the late 1800s the land was placed within the vast Beaubien-

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Above: An evening fire at Frijoles dining hall. Below: The view from Cimarroncita ranch retreat. (Photos courtesy of Cimarroncita)

Miranda-Maxwell Land Grant of Northeastern New Mexico,” the website states. “Development of the 1800s brought the railroad up into the Cimarron Canyon and through Cimarroncita to Ute Park, serving the mining and lumber industries.”

The buildings at the ranch, those that post-date the 1920s, were brought via the railroad from Saint Louis, Mo.

“It was a very high-end situation at that time,” Huerta said.

As times changed, so did the use of the area. “‘Minnit’ married Frank Burk in 1936, and together

they developed and operated ‘CRC,’ the website states. “Some ten years later, Cimarroncita Ranch Camp for Boys was established on a separate nearby site with Sally Scurry as director. The camps initially catered to campers from Texas, and swiftly built a reputation throughout the United States and abroad as one of the most elegant, exclusive and finest summer camps in the country.”

Fast forward The use of the retreat varies, but Huerta said

individuals to small groups can utilize it.“I would say it’s a good place for the senior staff

of a corporation to take a retreat and a small family group to make a reunion, within those numbers (24-26 people),” Huerta said.

He said his favorite parts about the area are “the relaxing outdoor experience they can have here. Because the property available for public recreation in the West is diminishing, this is a gem.”

Rooms are fitted to the era; there is no TV or radio except in the main lobby of Frijoles, and the sinks and decor are straight from the 1930s.

“We have everything that you would need to rough it deluxe. We have hot and cold water, good linen, great food, good fishing, great hiking, horseback riding if you would like, those types of things,” Huerta said.

Huerta said there’s something to be uncovered each time people visit the area.

“It has its own little secrets that no matter how many times you come or you’re here, you discover something new,” Huerta said. “There’s something every day: where animals den, new and old birds passing through, plant populations I never knew existed, the way the river changes slightly, but it’s still the same river, different people coming. A lot of the people come back.”

Huerta said his favorite part about owning the retreat is being a good host and making people happy.

“Seeing people relax and asking me what time it is

or what day it is, because it doesn’t matter when you get here, and the people seem to forget those items when they get here,” Huerta said. “We aim to please, and we provide the golden rule of service and we try to always be on the spot with their needs.”

Huerta said he didn’t want to change the retreat too much.

“The place has a timelessness of its own,” Huerta said. “We’re getting more adept at fitting the round peg to the round hole as far as promotion and actually seeing the projects and the programs come through.”

What’s in store Bennett Strahan, owner of Cow Patty’s Grill in

downtown Cimarron, is the head chef at Cimarroncita. His background includes extensive French classic training as well as a practice in rustic American food.

“I like to focus on American foods outside the box, and I also like to do European,” Strahan said. “Our dinners are elegant.”

The motto of the ranch is “roughing it deluxe.” “There’s a chalkboard out on the front porch, and

people will be able to see what the dinner and the lunch menu is for that day,” Strahan said. “It can be anything from high French to barbecue or smoked ribs — everything from cowboy to classics.”

Huerta said the retreat also can accommodate vegan, vegetarian and more special needs such as gluten intolerance.

Culinary workshops are available with the head chef over the summer. More workshops in addition to the cooking in the kitchen classes are available, such as the Cellos of Cimarroncita.

Flyfishing in the area, Huerta said, is “exquisite,” with brown and rainbow trout abundant in the area. He said he does not allow turkey hunting in the area because he would prefer people to be able to enjoy the unbridled wildlife.

Tours are available to the public by appointment, but not when guests are on the property.

“When guests are here, it’s theirs,” Huerta said. “When they’re here, the front gate is locked. If someone comes up and thinks they’re just going to come through the front gate, they will get challenged, seriously. One of our things we offer here is relaxation and privacy.”

But that’s just part of the story, according to the keepers of the retreat.

“There’s so much here, to get it all in would be almost impossible,” Strahan said.

For more information and a list of events and workshops, visit www.cimarroncita.com or call 1-866-376-2482.



BY ERIC HEINZ

Deborah Beaucamp-May, associate Realtor with Coldwell Banker Sutton Trujillo Group in Angel Fire, strives to leave clients without any questions.

From showing off the Moreno Valley’s natural beauty to the aspects of the community, Beaucamp-May said, she enjoys informing her clients about their home ventures top to bottom.

Beaucamp-May came to the valley in 1988 and started working some odd jobs. Eventually, she became a Realtor, a venture born through happenstance. She said it wasn’t something she had planned to make a career.

“Mostly getting into it was everybody telling me I should do it,” Beaucamp-May said.

However, she initially had some concerns. “The whole industry seems like its unfair, unethical, and quite

honestly it seemed kind of cutthroat. And I didn’t really want to be involved in that,” she said.

But Beaucamp-May was able to overcome her trepidation by talking to people about the industry and finding that it may not be the slash-and-burn profession she imagined.

“There are a lot of ethical people,” Beaucamp-May said. “There’s a code of ethics you have to take every three years. It’s really important for me to be involved with a qualifying broker. And the office is full of ethical people, so you kind of have to find your way.”

Beaucamp-May said she started her career at New Mexico Mountain Properties, after which she went to Bella Tierra RE/MAX and then to Coldwell Banker Sutton-Trujillo Group. She said she also practiced real estate with her husband, Robin, at one time. Robin still retains his real estate license.

May also said she was an Angel Fire village councilor from 2008 to 2012, which gave her an edge in knowing everything that was going on in the area immediately.

Gaining people’s trust is another aspect that Beaucamp-May said is vital in closing a deal.

“I think you have to have a belief of right and wrong, and if you go into a gray area, you make sure you do your homework,” Beaucamp-May said. “We have a wonderful resource with the Realtors association for the state of New Mexico, and we have an attorney we can talk to in order to verify that what we’re doing is right. Full disclosure is the most important thing.”

Putting yourself in the shoes of the buyer or seller is a way to gain understanding of how to represent the client, Beaucamp-May said.

“A lot of larger areas have neighborhoods or sell certain types of property,” Beaucamp-May said. “Around here, you have to do it all; you can’t just do one thing. Well, I guess you could, but you’d be very limited in what your business would be.”

Beaucamp-May said her spectrum includes Angel Fire and Eagle Nest.

When pushing a purchase, Beaucamp-May said, she emphasizes what the area has to offer.

“It’s the lifestyle,” she said. “We have four distinct seasons here. We have the best of all worlds.”

Beaucamp-May hasn’t lost her passion for the real estate business, either.

“Once you get it started, really get into real estate, it becomes addictive,” Beaucamp-May said.

Getting started in this business can be difficult, she said, but she offered a tip for people who want to try.

“Find a mentor,” Beaucamp-May said. “That’s exactly what got me through. It’s ongoing, too, because there’s always someone who has more experience than you.”

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By being on the premier trade route at the time, lots of people and goods passed through the colony.

Along with the harshness of life at the colony, there were also threats of attack by the local Native American population, who were known for allegedly stealing the settlers’ livestock. Maxwell eventually moved with his family to Cimarron, which is about 12 miles north of Rayado.

Santa Fe TrailThe Santa Fe Trail played a major role in the existence

of Rayado, as travelers on the legendary trade route passed through the small colony. It is said that Maxwell would even put some travelers up for the night if it was late in the day.

There were two routes of the Santa Fe Trail that made their way into New Mexico. The first is the Cimarron Cutoff, which was viewed as a shortcut and passed through towns such as Clayton and Wagon Mound on the eastern plains. But the Cimarron Cutoff, according to local legend, was the harsher of the two routes. It has been said that in many places, there was no firewood, water or grass for the animals on this route. Not only that, but there was always the threat of attack by some of the Plains Indians. As years went by, the dangers only became worse as hostilities increased against wagon trains by Native Americans. It is believed that Jeddediah Smith, a frontiersman famous for exploring the Oregon Trail, was killed on his first journey on the Cimarron Cutoff. Eventually, the route was all but abandoned.

The Mountain Route was far more popular, although traveling through Raton Pass could be dangerous because of sheer cliffs and the rocky trail. It wasn’t uncommon for wagons to suffer broken wheels and axles, and the jarring ride was also hard on passengers. But the Mountain Route saw a lot more traffic. Rayado was on the southern end of the Mountain Route. But the arrival of the railroad in the late 1800s spelled the end of travel on the Santa Fe Trail.

Later yearsIn the late 1800s, there was a military garrison located at

Rayado. Additionally, there was a post office, several small homes and a church. The post office remained open and operational from 1873 to 1911 or as late as 1919, depending on the source. According to various sources, Rayado was one of the first settlements in Colfax County. In 1929 the ranch was purchased by Waite Phillips, an Oklahoma oil baron, who donated it to the Boy Scouts of America in 1941.

Boy Scouts Phillips eventually came into possession of more than 300,000

acres of mountains and plains land, which was part of a ranch he named Philmont. In 1938, Philips offered 35,857 acres of his ranch to the Boy Scouts of America to serve as a national wilderness camping area. Rayado was acquired in a later land

donation by Phillips. The Rayado Museum is a “must see” for anyone remotely

interested in Old West history. Most, if not all of its current structures are recreational, but they still give visitors a good sense of life on the frontier. If you make a trip to Rayado, duck into the blacksmith shop. It’s fascinating to view the tedious blacksmithing process and to see the finished product. The blacksmith shop uses all period-appropriate processes, with no help from modern technology. On any given day, there are also shooting demonstrations by museum staff. There are also many things to see at the museum.

Each room in the museum is outfitted with replica furniture and objects typical of New Mexico in the 1850s. The Rayado Trading Company, located at the museum, sells books, maps, tools and equipment, moccasins and blankets. The museum was scheduled to be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day beginning June 10. For more information, call the Philmont Museum at 575-376-1136.


A primitive tool made from a gourd is pictured at Rayado. (Sangre de Cristo Chronicle file photo)


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