Crested Butte early summer days, the snow retreats up the mountains until the last of it hides from the sun among the north facing peaks and their shading boulders. …
Category: San Juan Mountains
Wolf Creek Pass Village: Forest Service Blows Off Court
March 1, 2019 Last January we reported that the proposed “Village at Wolf Creek” had been defeated after decades of litigation and opposition. What a surprise when this week the …
The Public Defeats Billionaire, Saves Wolf Creek Pass
It’s great fun to go skiing at Wolf Creek Pass and enjoy the incredible views of the wild San Juan Mountains and the landscapes far beyond. Great to hike there …
Oil Spill in Animas and other Oil Industry Disasters
This week, British Petroleum Corporation (BP) created an Animas River oil spill. BP has dumped oil and fraking fluids into the Animas River near Durango, Colorado. The company spilled fraking …
Why Fall Colors? What’s Going On?
Fall is a time when we can hear melancholy songs in our minds as the wind grows cold and leaves rain down from the trees. Maybe the moments of …
Four Corners Folk Festival, a Regional Treasure
One of the things that really sets northern New Mexico and Southwest Colorado apart is our relative isolation. Southern Colorado is too far away from the bustle of exploding Denver …
Nowhere More Beautiful: The San Juan Loop
Leaving the low country and heading into the high country means sensory overload, pleasure, bliss, extreme exercise, danger, possibility of hypothermia, nudity, clinging to rocks with toes and fingertips and …
Tripping in the San Juan Mountains
The San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado define the four corners region. They dominate the skyline from a vast area of Utah, New Mexico and Colorado. Their massive peaks …
Independence Day 2018
The long empty skies of June are past now and clouds come over the mountains weakly, hovering for a time before abandoning us for the meaningless expanses of Oklahoma or …
Beyond the Fun; Reckoning with Durango’s History
Most of us live in the West because of the exceptional outdoor opportunities here, the vast areas of wild land, big mountain ranges, rivers, climbing cliffs, beautiful deserts and solitude. …
