Oh yeah, St John's is right by Monte Sol, which is a day hike you can do in several hours (about 7K feet I think), and the start of the Atalaya (7-9K feet) trail, and you can literally just walk up into the mountains in NM -- you just go to the outskirts of town and start going up, and there's all kinds of trails everywhere. So hiking/climbing/day hiking totally gets sold as a tourist thing. And there are plenty of tourists who just don't know how dangerous the weather can get even on a nice day, or how if you sprain your ankle alone on a mountain trail that can be a big problem, so the shorthand was "oh, tourists," instead of "oh, Americans." Which was unfair to the many out-of-state climbers who would come in and have a great time and knew what to do! but they weren't who we meant.