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This is January
A week after New Years, Dillon Reservoir, which sits at a little over 9,000 ft (or about 2750m) in elevation is still partially open (as in not ice covered). Little to no snow is to be seen on the...
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Colorado Continues to Surprise Me
Life, at times, can be trying, with a lot of ups and downs, surprises, and endeavors that do not go as planned. Of course, not all surprises are bad. Sometimes luck is on our side, and many of us...
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Welcome to Summer
Week after week is spent focusing on some sort of life endeavor; a major project at work, a personal improvement initiative, a diet, starting a business, preparing for kids. Meanwhile, the world...
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Memorial Day Tornados in Eastern Colorado
2018 has not been an active year for tornados. With May, the most active month for tornados nearly complete, only 416 tornados have been reported. This is, by any scientific measure, over 35% lower...
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Moose at Rocky Mountain National Park
We humans seem to have some kind of fascination with moose. There must be something about that animal. Several years ago I was on a weekend ski trip in Breckenridge. The condo our group stayed in had...
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Cycling from Colorado Springs to Denver
It started with a two hour bus ride, from Denver to Colorado Springs, on something called the Bustang. Bustang is a pretty good service for cyclists in Colorado, as each bus has bike racks on the...
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An Intense Hike Outside of Boulder
Colorado has some really intense hikes! Places like these, where steep terrain features rise up out of the ground like gigantic walls, are breathtaking beyond belief, but also intimidating for...
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A July 4th Hike Up Mount Evans
This Independence Day was a strange one. It was a day with all sorts of mixed feelings. The first is related to the holiday. I love the United States of America, and feel extremely blessed to have been...
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The Courage to be Radical
A modest sized cabin in the woods, surrounded by nature- trees, and wildlife. These cabins, often surrounded by a lake, rolling hills, or some other form of natural beauty, represent a lifestyle, a...
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A Weekend in Nature 90 Minutes from Denver
One mistake I witness quite often is people constantly turning their getaways into some form of challenge of their own. There is probably nobody more guilty of this than me; always seeking the far...
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The Colorado Classic
71 cyclists, all averaging a speed right around 30 mph, somehow ended up within 12 seconds of each other 2/3 of the way into an 8-lap 72 mile race. The strange thing is, this was the only time for the...
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The Oregon Trail IRL
We all remember playing the game as a kid. There was even a scene in the movie Boyhood, where the main character, Mason, is playing the game at school. Across multiple generations, it seems like...
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Fall Camping at Cottonwood Lake
This fall has been one of the most exhausting periods of my life in a long time. There is a reason I am writing this blog, in early November, over a month after this experience. Life is rarely...
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Opening Day At Breckenridge
Breckenridge, Colorado – November 7, 2018 It was the first time I ever went skiing on Opening Day. It’s not that I don’t get excited about the ski season, but Opening Day at any ski resort typically...
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A Full Moon Hike to Jefferson Lake
Hiking at night is something I had never really thought about doing. As is the case with the majority of the people who go hiking, my primary motivations are scenery, connection with nature, and...
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That Event You Always Find Yourself At
We all have that one event in our lives. Typically it is somewhere in the general vicinity of where we live, but not in the same town. Year after year, we find ourselves there, despite never actually...
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Frozen Dead Guy Days
It is perhaps one of the strangest festivals one will ever encounter. In Early March, the town of Nederland, Colorado, situated slightly above 8,200 feet (2500m) in elevation, puts on a festival to...
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Four Days After the Blizzard
Well, technically in most places it wasn’t actually a blizzard. Denver and points East were under a blizzard warning for the afternoon and evening of April 10, 2019. The wind speeds did not quite...
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Boulder Start Up Week
It would be hard for me to think of a group of people that I have more respect and admiration for than the Start Up Community. Entrepreneurs take risks the vast majority of people would never even...
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That Town I Always Just Drive Through
Everybody has that place in their lives; a town, a neighborhood, or maybe a specific restaurant. We always pass by, on the way somewhere, thinking “this place looks neat”. But, for some reason every...
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