Trekking

Apr 17, 20199 min read

The Loose Rock Project

~ In Memory of Ralph Conkey - High Country Hunter & Wilderness Guide Extraordinaire ~ A couple of decades ago I trekked into the...

Apr 1, 20191 min read

Canyon Crow

~ Hey canyon crow ~ wing-tipping the rim! ~ Riding the flow ~ of warm updrafts thin. ~ Where do you go ~ on a soaring whim? ~ What do you...

Sep 30, 20181 min read

Random Therapeutics

My youngest brother took this photo while visiting here this summer. He came upon it walking near the aspen grove growing along the south...

May 10, 20184 min read

Herpetology Camp

As soon as school let us loose the summer of 1969, my mother sent my sister and I away to camp. Not some screwy religious indoctrination...

Mar 18, 20182 min read

Chasing The Dot Com Bubble

In summer 2000, I chased the dot com bubble to the Front Range. That winter, I was rewarded with my first snow of the 21st century there....

Feb 20, 20185 min read

Escape Vector Dreaming

Half a decade before the turn of the century, alone and wandering along northern curves and oxbows of the Rio Grande, I found this spot...

Feb 5, 201817 min read

Escape From The Hard Gray Edge

~ A True Tale About Seeking Orca ~ As the final decade of the 20th Century was coming to a close, I was beginning to get fed up with...

Jan 28, 20181 min read

Remote Opportunities

Spotting this during an early-summer hike along the rim of Gascon Point, a fielded guess at its common name–Alpine Thistle (sometimes...

Jan 10, 20188 min read

One Leg Raven

~one leg raven ~regarding my churn ~steaming and black mud splattered ~saying nothing that mattered ~we chatted in turn ~not so craven~...