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Kialo Winters

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🎒Cultural Tour Guide 🦔 Showcasing Northwest New Mexico's Legacy 🐾🌄 Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, Shiprock, Chaco Culture National Historical Park

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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 18/09/2026
⚠️ Chaco Canyon road alert The access road into Chaco is flash flooding right now where it crosses the wash. Do not attempt the crossing 10:00 a.m. September 18, 2026. Stay safe out there. #NMwx #ChacoCanyon #FlashFlood
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 14/09/2026
The monsoons are back over northwest New Mexico, and several years of moderate drought, not complaining about a single drop! Watching these storms roll across the region are welcomed. The land needed this. So did we. 11:30 a.m. 09/14/26 #NMWX #wx #NWNewMexico
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 22/08/2026
Late August into October is the window for Northwest New Mexico. 📸🌞
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 07/08/2026
Feast day season in New Mexico with four still ahead this August. If you go, go as a guest: no photos, no applause, follow each pueblo's guidance. Dates via the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center indianpueblo.org #NewMexicoTrue #PuebloFeastDays
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 26/07/2026
Chaco Canyon is not just land, it’s an important cultural site. It matters deeply to us as Pueblo & Indigenous people whose history and identity are connected to it. Protecting this area isn’t only about nature, it’s also about respect and preserving culture. #ProtectChaco
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 05/07/2026
American diversity didn't start in 1776. The 575 federally recognized tribes remind us that this land has always been home to many peoples, many histories, and many futures. That story is complicated and worth understanding. #IndigenousPeoples
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 04/07/2026
Cotton candy skies, my office decompresses here. A way to reset. #nmwx
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 25/06/2026
Heavy clouds arrive Chaco receives what it needs The land drinks deep. #nmwx
Chaco Canyon on the horizon in the San Juan Basin in northwest New Mexico.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 20/06/2026
A Diné teen DelShay Henio (14), her horse, her family's ranch. She's a young woman who competes in rodeo, looking at her own future. We are not a tradition being preserved before it disappears. We raise the next generation for futures of their own. photocontest.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest...
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Portrait of a Navajo Girl and Her Horse
DelShay Henio leads her horse across the arid land of her family's ranch on the Navajo Nation in northern New Mexico.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 16/06/2026
Display of headwear from 42 countries #VisitFarmington. Meaning in living cultures is stored in the practice around it: who makes it, when it's worn, what's said, how it's passed down. Take in the beauty. Then read the descriptions carefully, that's where the purpose lives. #NewMexicoTrue
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 16/06/2026
New Visit Farmington grant puts tourism dollars back into local, recurring experiences instead of letting them leave town. Due June 30. This is stewardship economics, and it's right. farmingtonnm.org/uploads/docu...
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 08/04/2026
Thunderheads are back to the Nacimiento Watershed and the Jemez Mountains. #MaleRains #NMwx
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 10/01/2026
The coldest section of US 550 is La Ventana just south of Cuba. This was at 4AM this morning. #nmwx
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 06/01/2026
All the dedication our youngest has shown over the past four years really paid off in her senior season. Her sisters, June and KC, along with our new son-in-law Nick, her coaches, friends, and role models, played an important role in everything she's achieving. #SalinasCali
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 03/01/2026
Back to the city for some basketball. Our youngest wrapping up her run with the Cleveland Storm. #FullCircle
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 02/01/2026
2026 Holiday harvest
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 20/10/2025
Sunday #stunday at sunset. 🗣 (Petrified tree stump in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness)
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 16/10/2025
Out here in the Valley of Dreams, the area telling a story older than memory. Each tour reminds us that we’re not just walking through history, we’re walking with it. I’m third to right with my other guide Gilbert. Check out our tours @navajotoursusa.com #HumansofBluesky #newmexicotrue
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 19/09/2025
Birthday party bound after work!
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 14/09/2025
Summer rains in the San Juan Basin create the perfect moment to travel. The quiet escape you've been looking for with epic clouds, glowing light, and surreal landscapes. ✨️
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 23/06/2025
Trading the noise for nature this Sunday.
Alien Throne, Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Navajo Wilderness.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 13/05/2025
We don’t just hike here. We listen. We remember, where wild horses roam in the hoodoos of Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 11/05/2025
The etched lines of Bisti, timeless
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 07/05/2025
Needed to grill. Got our teenagers gathered (voluntarily, shockingly) and gave my wife a well-earned break.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 05/05/2025
Rising four storied levels, 600+ rooms, the 11th-century marvel Chetro Ketl's north wall. #IndigenousHeritage
Chetro Ketl north wall at Chaco Canyon.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 04/05/2025
Prickly pear cactus will be blooming soon. East humidity has entered the SW region.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 20/04/2025
We'll take this April snow. #nmwx
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 10/04/2025
Evening Moon, Twilight Hike
Hoodoo formation moonlit from left to right in the San Juan basin in northwest New Mexico.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 08/04/2025
These cracked, round rock formations are called the Cracked Eggs in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness. Special effects courtesy of erosion and millions of years of drama. #HatchThisWay #RockingTheWilderness
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 06/04/2025
Leaving New Mexico is one thing but returning? That’s soul work. The colors just don't shine, they sing. The land doesn’t just feel familiar, it wraps around you. It teaches, it remembers, and it never forgets who you are, no matter how far you’ve wandered.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 05/04/2025
Currently en route despite the weather. See you there! Possibly getting stuck 16 miles in, but hey, adventure doesn’t begin until my tires give up, right? #nmwx
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 05/04/2025
Na’azísí Bito’ (Gopher Spring) Cuba, New Mexico 9:40 a.m. #nmwx
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 27/03/2025
Aways a special time when our kids come home for spring break and we can reconnect and share our traditions. Our kids are back from San Jose, and they’re excited to enjoy our traditional foods again. We welcome all our children home, surrounded by the strength and protection of our sacred lands.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 24/03/2025
🌟🌌 My ancestors understood the celestial sky, wove its meaning and ceremony into their lives. Archaeoastronomy doesn’t just confirm this, we’ve always known it, our oral traditions have always told it. The Chaco World has alignment, intention, and precision. And the cosmic expanse backs it up. 🌌 ✨️
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 12/03/2025
"As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. She learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi...consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers." amzn.to/43Hn9yF
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Amazon.com: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Audible Audio Edition): Robin Wall Kimmerer, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Tantor Audio: Books
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 08/03/2025
Off to Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Navajo this morning, hoping to catch the Alien Throne with a fresh dusting of snow. ❄️ #nmwx #WinterWonderland #NewMexicoMagic
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 06/03/2025
During our outing this week with photographers, "Get lower to capture the tiny mushrooms at the base." #NaturePhotography
Photography in the San Juan Basin in Northwest New Mexico of rock formations in the Upper Cretaceous period of strata.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 29/01/2025
Snow has finally reached Cuba, NM, hope our wipers aren’t older than our last oil change! #nmwx 2:00 p.m. 1/29/25
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 25/01/2025
A ball of sandstone concretion pitted from water and wind erosion found in the the Bisti Badlands.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 24/01/2025
2024 results are in from @Flickr 'Year In Review'! 📸 No surprise...our travel guests favored the #1 non-phone camera on the list. As for me, I used #4 non-phone camera all year. What about you?
Image shows a list of most popular non-phone cameras by users in 2024, and most popular cameras overall.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 24/01/2025
What year would you upload from if you were a time traveler? ⏳📸 😂"...all #Flickr users CHECK YOUR DATE SETTINGS to avoid upsetting the temporal scientific community...snaps dated 03/16/9095 or 04/27/1524, metadata...sparks debate about existence of time travelers." flickr.com/year-in-revi...
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The 2024 Year in Review | Flickr
A look back at the highlights, insights, and trends in the world of photography in 2024.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 23/01/2025
The #ABQSunport getting more food vendors each month since the revamp. 🌟 Travelers can now choose vegan cuisine, Piñon Coffee, Dunkin, and classic New Mexican dishes like Laguna Burger, Sadies, and Steel Bender Brewyard. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/co...
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New coffee option opens at the Albuquerque International Sunport
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – New food vendors have been unveiled as the Albuquerque International Sunport continues its renovation projects, but now, travelers will have another option when it comes to caffeine. Dunkin’ has opened its newest Albuquerque location in the airport, and it is open daily from 4 a.m. to 5 p.m. The airport’s Dunkin’ is located […]
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 23/01/2025
Creativity on the go! Skylum's new Luminar Mobile for Apple users. 🎨 apps.apple.com/us/app/lumin...
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‎Luminar Mobile Photo Editor
‎Luminar Mobile — Your all-in-one, on-the-go photo editor and creative companion for iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro. Explore powerful AI-driven tools and an interactive interface that responds to your to...
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 23/01/2025
Post-hike with new friends and a four-legged champion who wagged his way through the whole day! 🐾 High spirits and great company.
Post-hike hikers taking a selfie at the Bisti Badlands sign at the trailhead. A hiker meandering through four meter tall hoodoos in Bisti Badlands.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 18/01/2025
Six days of integrating AI tools into our business led to insights on using AI for the Navajo Nation...can Navajo Chapters adapt or create models for economic innovation? And so many more use case questions.🌀🐇 Image credit: #Grok
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 17/01/2025
Got some miles in with cousin Dan. #nmwx
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 16/01/2025
KC’s senior night is next week, a milestone to celebrate her 🏀 varsity journey. Supporting her plans to make it truly memorable.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 16/01/2025
Caught up with cousin Dan from Alaska, shared family updates, hit the riverside trail for a run, and laughed over some classic '80s memories. #NotBeforeWeAtePastriesForLunch
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 11/01/2025
Ideation to execution.
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Kialo Winters @kialowinters.com · 06/01/2025
Pueblo Feast Days in New Mexico www.newmexico.org/native-cultu...
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Feast Days
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