1001 Tales of Treasure
A Simple Connection with Nature
While camping in on the North Rim of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, an interaction with a Stellars Jay gave me a moment to reflect on our place in nature.
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Finally Paddling a Little
Mike and I took my canoe out this weekend. We had a blast and managed to snap a couple of decent pictures.
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Smokey and a Real Bear!
After hiking for many years in the Colorado Rockies, I’d never seen a bear while on the trail. That finally changed while hiking on the Sandbeach Lake Trail.
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Hanging Out with a Bull Moose in RMNP
I was extremely lucky to get to spend an hour and a half with a bull moose in his own world, in the wilderness of Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Between Game Wandering Along the Yampa
My younger son had a baseball tournament in Steamboat Springs, CO. That’s one awesome place to have a tournament. However, there are not enough fields in and near Steamboat, so some of the games were about an hour away in Craig, CO, which is on the Yampa River. In between two Read more…
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Sandbeach Lake In May
A blog post about my hike to Sandbeach Lake in May. The Lake was still frozen, and the weather was crazy, but I got some great pictures and had a wonderful hike.
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First 2014 Wild Basin Hike
I headed up this weekend with a friend for a quick hike along the Nighthawk Trail at Hall Ranch. Within a mile, the red, slippery mud was getting annoying. On a whim, I announced that we should turn around and head to Wild Basin in Rocky Mountain National Park. Since we didn’t Read more…
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Finally a Warm Hike
The temperature is finally moving into the range for hiking in shorts and t-shirts along the Colorado Front Range. I have to admit that I am getting really anxious to get up in the high country and start hitting some of the high peaks. I mentioned that I was Read more…
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Good Good Friday Hiking
The foothills here in the Colorado Rocky Mountains are melting off and drying up. On Good Friday, my friend Mike and I headed up to Lyons, CO to Hall Ranch to do a little hiking and take some pictures. I can’t think of a better way to spend a Friday Read more…
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Hall Ranch Hike with a New Pair of Crampons
ONE MORE EXCUSE GONE!!! In my continuing quest, to eliminate my silly excuses for not hiking in less-than -perfect conditions, I added trail crampons to my growing gear arsenal. It was just too easy to say, “Oh, the trails might be too icy, or snowy, or muddy.” With these bad Read more…