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About this guide, contact and notices

A short chapter about the guide itself: how it is written, what it will and will not publish, how to send a correction, and the publishing and privacy notices. It is the least interesting page here and the one that says most about how the rest was made.

01 Who writes it

Seven Thousand Feet is written and edited by one person, working in English, as a personal publishing project rather than a business. There is no editorial team, no advertising, no sponsored placement and no commercial relationship with anything described in these pages.

That is a limitation as much as a virtue. A single writer covers less ground, updates more slowly and has one set of blind spots. The compensation is consistency: every page here was written to the same standard by the same hand, and when something is uncertain it is marked as uncertain rather than smoothed over.

02 How it is written

Four rules govern every page.

  1. No invented specifics. No figures, quotations, prices or testimonials that cannot be traced. Where a number is an average or an approximation, it says so in the sentence.
  2. Rules rather than dates for anything that moves. Market weekends, session lengths and seasonal patterns are given as the rule that generates them, with a note to confirm with the organizer.
  3. No prices. Prices in a tourist city change faster than a guide can, and quoting them would mislead more often than it helped.
  4. Nothing is sold or reserved here. This site takes no bookings, handles no payments and collects no personal details. It is a guide to read before dealing with the people who do those things.

Where a subject involves other people's religious or ceremonial life, particularly Pueblo feast days, the guide describes the etiquette and points readers to the community's own guidance rather than attempting to speak for anyone.

A wooden writing desk set against a deep-set window in a thick adobe wall, with open notebooks and a folded paper map on it and bright sky outside
Deep window reveals, a paper map and a lot of checking. That is the whole production process.

03 Corrections

Corrections are welcome and are the most useful thing a reader can send. If a fact here is wrong, a road has been renumbered, an institution has moved or a rule has changed, please write, and if possible say where the better information comes from.

Corrections are made to the page itself, and the revision date at the foot of each chapter is updated when they are. Substantive changes are not made silently: if a claim is withdrawn rather than corrected, the page says so.

04 Contact

There is one address, and it is read.

[email protected]

There is deliberately no contact form on this site, because a form implies a service desk and there is not one. Email is answered when time allows, in English. Please do not send press releases, listing requests or link proposals: they are not published here, and there is no rate card because there is nothing for sale.

05 Publishing notice

This site is published by a private individual acting in a personal, non-professional capacity. It is an editorial publication about travel and local history in northern New Mexico. It is not a business, does not trade, does not process payments and does not act as an agent, broker or intermediary for any accommodation, venue or service described in these pages.

Written enquiries may be sent to [email protected]. Correspondence about the content of the site is answered at that address.

On accuracy

Everything here is written in good faith and checked against the best sources available to one writer. Opening hours, transport schedules, permits, tax thresholds and event dates all change, and change without notifying anybody who writes about them. Confirm anything that matters with the organization responsible before you rely on it.

07 Privacy

This site is built as static pages. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, embeds no third-party scripts, loads no remote fonts and calls no external servers of any kind. There is no account, no newsletter, no comment system and no form. Nothing about your visit is recorded here beyond the ordinary request logs kept by the hosting provider for operational purposes.

If you write to the contact address, your message and your address are used to answer you and for nothing else. They are not added to any list, because there is no list.