Today is the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, a groundbreaking 1964 law that designated over 800 wilderness areas across the United States.
Read More
He's a putt-putt wizard
There has got to be a twist
A putt-putt wizard's
Got such a supple wrist
Read More
Building an archive of some of Denver's best places to photograph your favorite people.
#1 on the list is Denver Botanic Gardens hands down!
Read More
The desaturated landscape surrounding the Amache Japanese-American Relocation Center, better known to the world as Camp Amache, reflects a sad texture in American history.
Read More
It all starts with a trickle of snowmelt, then a rush down the mountainside. Crystal clear and cold, the meandering Middle Fork South Platte River provides Colorado with the lush grassland basins of Park County.
Read More
What does the term "shotgun" even mean?
For many Americans, it’s a game, something we call piling out of the house with an eye toward the coveted front passenger seat.
Read More
We hit the trail later in the day than planned, it was mid-April, so we had plenty of time to reach our backcountry camp by sundown-ish. Our route, the Sand Ramp Trail, would thread us almost 6 miles, around the backend of the 30 square mile dune field, snaking along through clusters of Pinon pines under a baking sun until nightfall.
Read More
856, 070420.
An Independence Day storm rolls as the peak of 14,065 foot Mount Bierstadt catches last light.
Guanella Pass. Clear Creek County, CO
Read More
Once a Cretaceous ocean, remote South Platte River basin of Weld County, Colorado, is home to Pawnee National Grassland.
Towering above the high plains, Pawnee Buttes host nesting birds of prey. Decedents now circle and soar over dry washes where fossil hunters have flocked since 1870.
Read More
Almost exactly 24-hours apart, a Colorado storm blankets the landscape in Cherry Creek State Park.
Read More
The quiet moments of winter in Garfield, County Colorado.
Read More
Look past reminders of modern-day, and it’s easy to imagine this view of the Miller House under construction in the winter of 1901. The snow and ice-packed streets of the Whittier neighborhood take on the look of how roads in the first few days of the 20th century looked, rutty and muddy.
Read More
Worst breed in the house—that’s exactly the breed I want: A dog that’s better outdoors than indoors. A dog that can handle snow drifts and scree fields, that’s smart enough to avoid guy lines and porcupines, and that has enough drive to walk uphill all day.
Read More
Editing archives for mood, an overall feeling. This frame is not going to make the final cut but just think, it probably would have lived on a hard drive if not for social. Deep.
Read More
The Rockies are therefore very young and should never be thought of as ancient. They are still in the process of building and eroding, and no one today can calculate what they will look like ten million years from now. They have the extravagant beauty of youth, the allure of adolescence, and they are mountains to be loved.
Read More
1117, 031719. Vasquez Cirque.
From the West Headwall looking back over the South Basin. Grand County, Colorado.
Read More
What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
Read More
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Read More
These burn areas are fascinating to explore in a walk down long-closed forest service roads. The aspens are making the first upwardly stand; the pines creep along as sprigs in the crunchy often Mars-like landscape and lush grass hugs near craggy splits in the earth where water tends to gather.
Read More
