I live in New Mexico about 40 miles from the border. Some friends and I would like to head down for a trip like this: http://www.remolino.com/ourtrips.htm (scroll down to "Hard-Core Mountain Biking Tour"😉. Only with more "camping in Gary's VW van" and less "paying 1100 dollars." We were thinking about staying here http://www.coppercanyonlodges.com/ at least part of the time and then going out on single day rides.
So if anyone has done it: what did you do, and how did it go?