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Órale, the Caló word for this episode is pajuelazo. In Spanish vernacular, anything that ends with 'azo' means to be hit with it: Bullet, balazo. Bat,…

“There are many houses of great size, strength and height,” the Spanish chronicler Baltasar Obregon wrote in the 1560s. “They are six and seven stories,…

“I look to the mountain,” the Psalmist of the Bible says, speaking for many of us. Our eyes are drawn to summits – mountain peaks have enthralled…

The word of the day is cuitcha, an alternative spelling is cuatcha. It means excrement and comes from the Comanche or Numunuu word for poop, cuita. Its…

Órale, the term ponerle is the feature of today’s episode. In Spanish it means to add to or put on top of. In Caló it means bet on or prefer something in…

“Guadalupe Mountains National Park has a reputation as a hiker's paradise. It's deserved.”That headline from a New York Times article distills the…

Órale, the word of the day is agüite. It comes from the Spanish word for watered down, aguado. In Caló, it describes a situation where you’re beaten down,…

How is a mountain made? The story often spans millions of years. But not always.On one explosive day, some 33 million years ago, the Chinati Volcano…

The writer Edward Abbey described his first sight of the Rocky Mountains, as a 17-year-old hitchhiker from Pennsylvania:“On the Western horizon... was a…

Carlsbad Cavern is a global destination. Each year, hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world descend into the cavern's “Big Room” – to tour…