This weekend Annie and I decided to get a few more 14er hikes under our belts by heading a little further west to the Democrat-Lincoln-Bross mountains. These are ideal peaks to climb in one roundtrip circuit due to their proximity. It’s been turning cooler here, and the weather was calling for a slight chance of [...]
Some parents retire and hit the road in an RV. My parents now get their kicks at 13,000′ hugging a cliffside in a Jeep Rubicon. They were in southwest Colorado week before last jeeping in the San Juans with some friends and enjoying the changing fall colors. They couldn’t be in the same state as [...]
This last weekend Annie and I decided to get out of the house and see some countryside. Even though I dislike driving long distances, short drives into the mountains have offered Annie and I great time together. We decided to drive north and west by Lake Granby, then head east along Trail Ridge Road through [...]
A cool front came through today, with cool breezes and rustling leaves. It’s September and it’s living up to its place on the calendar as the start of fall. There is a day each summer when suddenly just the slighted shift of the sun signals a new season. I don’t know what fractional change occurs [...]
On Labor Day I joined some friends from the climbing group at Church in the City for a climb of the third flatiron. The Flatirons are a series of rock formations on the south side of Boulder. This was the first time for me to climb multipitch, which means the route is so long that [...]