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A Day Observing Natural Phenomenon
It was never the most ideal setup for a storm chase. The convective environment was not too strong and the storms were poorly organized. It ended up being a fairly major day for severe thunderstorms...
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Camping Memorial Day Weekend at 9600 feet (2600 m)
The week leading up to Memorial Day Weekend life in Denver had already entered “summer mode”. Tuesday and Wednesday were the first official 90 degree days. People had begun to enter summer mode,...
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Imagine
Imagine a place where empty beautiful highways wind through the mountains populated by more bicycles than cars. A place where the world moves at a pace that allows for the soaking in of the full...
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Escaping the Heat
This year in Denver, it got hot and it got hot quickly. The first 90 degree temperature occurred on May 19th. This would be followed by the third hottest June on record, featuring 17 days where...
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Lessons Relearned on The West Elk Loop
It is quite easy to drive around the State of Colorado without even noticing the numerous scenic byways throughout the State. The signs are kind of easy to ignore. How certain roads get labelled...
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Cycling Leadville Colorado
Welcome to the future! The world is suddenly in a true state of transformation. Millions of people have transitioned to remote work. Prior to this year, remote work had never been too widespread....
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Mount of the Holy Cross
I did not understand why I heard so many cars going by at 3 A.M. We were camping in a really good spot, along Notch Mountain Road only five miles from the trailhead. Wasn’t the purpose of camping near...
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Backpacking in the Holy Cross Wilderness: Day 1 Versatility
It started with an amazingly picturesque waterfall, only half an hour into the hike, before even reaching the border of the Wilderness itself. There is no shortage of amazing natural features along...
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Backpacking in the Holy Cross Wilderness: Day 2 The Storm
We woke up to a light rain tapping on the tent. The tiny amount of blue sky present in the morning quickly disappeared. While some days start off rainy only to quickly give way to sunshine, it was...
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Backpacking the Holy Cross Wilderness: Day 3 Nature and Spirit
I became fascinated with weather as a fairly young child. While looking into weather, I would often find old books, written long before people could look up a weather forecast on the computer or even...
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The Rio Grande Trail: Basalt to Aspen
The name of this trail is puzzling. According the the trail’s website, this 42 mile trail, which connects Glenwood Springs to Aspen, was named after the Rio Grande Western Railroad, which ran along...
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At the End
It is perhaps one of the most pleasant feelings in existence. The crowds and the activity of summer have passed. The air is quite comfortable. A gentle breeze blows light yellow and orange tree leaves...
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New Years in Central Colorado
There are many ways to approach travel. Some people travel for experiences, like festivals. Others visit places to see a specific landmark, experience a natural phenomenon or take part in a specific...
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Breckenridge During the Pandemic
Last March, when the Coronavirus first swept across North America, all the ski resorts were shut down in the name of “flattening the curve”. Luckily for those of us who love to ski: The pandemic...
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Crested Butte January 2021
The way we talk about the weather is quite peculiar. There are many that consider the weather amongst the most mundane topics of discussion, the thing people talk about when they don’t have anything...
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When Cycling Was What I Needed
January 31, 2021 on the Platte River Trail in suburban Denver… I ceased pedaling for a few seconds, allowing myself to slow down. This helped me successfully navigate around several groups of people,...
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The Search for the Most Ideal Conditions
The lift lines at the ski resorts were so long that images of them made the rounds on social media, and the news even reported on how long these lines were. They were the longest lift lines I ever...
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From Either-Or to Both-And
It feels good to be traveling again! Here’s to more to come! However, I must acknowledge that the middle of April is kind of a strange season to return to the world of traveling. It is not a very...
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Cycling up Mountains in a Storm
Loveland Pass on Sunday May 23, 2021 Colorado can be a pretty confusing and frustrating place in the Springtime. In most mid-latitude Northern Hemisphere places, Spring is a time of revival. It is the...
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The Last Week of the Off-Season in Summit County, Colorado
Keystone Village Ice Rink three days before Memorial Day Weekend 2021 Somewhere along the line, a holiday set aside to remember those who had died serving in the U.S. military became the “unofficial...
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