Rocky Mountain Low

The Organ Mountains near Las Cruces and the Franklin Mountains in El Paso are part of the Rocky Mountain chain and are, depending on your point of view, either the beginning or the end of the Rockies. We here at COC like to think of them as the beginning of the Rocky Mountains because it makes us feel more important. That's the way we do things around here. In El Paso, Texas they have an interesting way of doing things, too. Take the naming of geographical landmarks, for instance. In the photo at left the distant Franklin Mountains (lighter purple color) reveal four distinct peaks (panning from left to right). They are: Anthony's Nose, North Franklin Mountain, South Franklin Mountain and Mount Franklin. Since the Franklins are a North-South trending range, that puts South Franklin Mountain north of Mount Franklin, an interesting directional anomaly.