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Click clack, click clack, click clack. The sound of my trekking poles is about all I can focus on as I slowly, ever so slowly make my way up the Bright Angel Trail at Grand Canyon National Park. We are on the last three miles of our bucket list backpack trip…
Continue readingA hot topic among friends, family and co-workers is talk about a bucket list, specifically what’s on your bucket list? Well, for those among us who love the outdoors, I have developed my own bucket list — the backpacking bucket list. Fortunately, for me, I had the chance to cross…
Continue readingWell, another ski season begins anew tomorrow as both Loveland and Arapahoe Basin ski resorts open tomorrow. This is the latest opening day for the Colorado skis season in 15 years. It seems like a long time coming, but in reality, it’s still a pre-Halloween start to the ski season,…
Continue readingAs the temperatures finally drop, and we’ve received our first snow here in Nederland, thoughts for many mountain residents as well as my work colleagues turn to “what am I going to do this winter?” Unfortunately (or fortunately) when you work in the parks field and you live in places…
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