State’s outdoor recreation businesses prepare to make their case at Adventure Pitch Fest

Eric Moffat has been hiking his whole life. Colorado is where he fell in love with the activity, but New Mexico is where he discovered the great outdoors on another level. “From the deep desert to the alpine forests to the juniper plateaus — I don’t know of anywhere else where the landscape is so varied within such a small amount of distance,” said Moffat, who’s lived in New Mexico on and off since the ‘90s. “I love how empty it is here and how vast. I think the fact that it’s still fairly unknown is one of its greatest…