We are sorry to announce the passing on Sept 7 of Carl Smith, 86, a long-time friend and sawyer in the Friends of the Sandia Mtns for decades.  In the words of Sam Beard, ” Carl and I were friends and colleagues for more than 45 years.  We shared our love of the outdoors in the Friends of the Sandia Mountains and the New Mexico Cross Country Ski Club.  A skilled photographer, Carl contributed many pictures to my Ski Touring in Northern New Mexico, and he used his chain saw to remove trees from ski trails in the Sandia and Jemez Ranger Districts.  We also enjoyed working together using chainsaws to fell hazard trees, cut logs, and clear meadows in projects organized by the Friends.”   A former physicist with Sandia Labs, Carl was also a climber and an avid mountain biker as well as a road biker with NM Touring Society.  We all knew his sometimes exacting standards and we enjoyed hearing of his many world-wide climbing adventures, which he regaled with old-school amusement, no matter how harrowing it actually was.  In addition to photographing for Sam’s book, he contributed to Robert Julyan’s The Mountains of New Mexico and others.  Carl was laid up for a few years in the companionship of his wife, Marilyn.  Please see French Funerals for the future Memorial Service schedule, frenchfunerals.com/obituaries/carl-smith