Sunday evening I was sprawled across the sidewalk in front of the Ace Hardware in Leadville, filthy, stinky, and awaiting my ride back from the weekend foray. Somewhere between coma…
Fidgit Plans to Hike the Colorado Trail
[The Colorado Trail is] a legacy which will feed the quest for adventure, and precipitate the special dimension of life imparted by the spirit of the outdoors. The dream has…
What (a) to do
Where have the last 3 weeks gone? Well, let me tell you… What with camping, hot springs, and mooning kayakers down by Mt. Princeton with Erica OtherEthers, Mike DoitDoneit and…
Rockies got Character(s)
As end of season festivities whirl through the Resorts, so too did snow. Naturally, just as we were cashing in chips, breaking out shorts and putting away ski boots; Ullr…
The World is my Sno-Cone
Spring sprang early this year; seemingly everywhere. Up here in the Rockies, we’ve had 60 degree weather for the past 3 weeks, reducing snow to a mushy, gooshey mashed potato…
Wiggle & Niggle, Spring Break Hails
Winter begins to niggle. 50 degree days burn through an already below average snowpack. We the people commence peremptory goodbying the Season, even as we trek about in snow shoes,…
Kids & Horses and Boats & Floats
After the ‘epic’ amounts of snow up here last season, the locals have been gritchy about this years lack thereof. To placate themselves they remind one another that snow season…
Bootleg Christmas Tree & Hopes for Holiday Future
It was a clear, cold Sunday night when Anne and I took a handsaw out into the Church of Wilderness, offered up thanks, and brought Norman the 4 ft. Christmas…
Fox on the Water
The hub of Breckenridge night life seems to be The Village. I know this because I was nearly involved in 3 collisions and a few Luke Dukes slid across the…
Kittehs and Eminent Domain
I felt savvy and mature this morning, boarding the gondola with an issue of the Summit Daily under my arm and a Blue Moon Cafe’ travel mug in my mitt…
