This should be fun!
We took a short trip to Santa Fe today, and on the way back I got to take some more bouncy video from the car, only this time it was while we were coming up out of the “horseshoe” and into that impossible vista. To make things even weirder, I found a nifty 25-year-old audio clip from an overdubbing experiment and added it as a sound track. Remember, this is the first full view of the Gorge and Taos Mountain that you get when you climb out of the canyon coming from the south. Heh…
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AWESOME! I have tried to shoot this before. Stills do not capture the feeling of coming onto this scene. The movie is really effective to make you feel, ‘Whoa…’ like at the top of the roller coaster. Thanks so much for doing this! Can I put this on FB?
Sure, you can put it anywhere. It’s a public YouTube video! Embed ’til the cows come home.
Had to watch it twice because my computer is being stupid this morning and stopped every 4 or 5 seconds. I thought I was never going to get around the curve and up on top. It’s been years and years since I’ve been on that road so I had forgotten.
It gave me a feeling similar to the one I used to get coming off the Llano Estacado (Caprock) going west on US 380. It’s flat, flat, flat then you drop off the edge and the entire desert floor opens up at your feet It’s the first view of Capitan. Not as dramatic as the gorge, but it meant I was almost home. New Mexico will do that to you.
New Mexico has certainly done it to me. We were in Iowa recently, and I got freaked out because I could never see a horizon…
WOW – Always forget how special “Horseshoe Curve” and coming into Taos via the “Low Road” Really IS!! Although I LOVE taking the High Road from Santa Fe, we have started turning left from the high road near Penasco, just to take the Low road the final distance into Taos….for Exactly the reason your video shows! Thanks for sharing John – and thanks for the reminder…especially since we will likely NOT be able to make our yearly trek to el Norte this year…
: ( But LOVED the video!! Steve
Glad you liked it, Steve!
John-
I was back in Taos for a short stay back in February. I brought along a long-time pal who had originally helped me move out there in ‘06. Long-story-short, this time, he got to see the OTHER side of Taos. He told me on the way home that he now sees how I could fall in love with such a place. The anticipation of driving up that long incline to the crest of the overlook gives me goosebumps; even in digital.
Hey guy, how ya doin’?
I just watched that video with my computer speakers at normal volume, and I guess it’s kinda loud.
But I’m glad you could watch it and get the feeling.
It’s some kinda spot, all right. Hope all is well with you!
More good stuff!
I remember that feeling of cresting the top……amazing.And that rest stop to the right was where a coyote came up to me once while trying to take pics.
The first time I saw it I had a friend from the Netherlands in the car. “You know,” she said meditatively, “you could drop all of Holland into this space.” The whole 23 years I lived in New Mexico, I thought of her (and missed her) every time I came over that rise. Video was sure the right way to capture it. Thanks.
I’ll bet it WOULD fit in there.
Have you been to the Netherlands?