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Traffic as far as the eye could see. I wasn’t prepared for this. I expected traffic in Washington, DC, but not on I-70 in rural Colorado. Nevertheless, a line of cars and trucks were bumper to bumper east bound all the way up to the Eisenhower Tunnel. A Shortcut Gone…
Continue readingLast Sunday, I got really excited. Really excited. After waiting all winter for a decent snow storm, it seemed we would finally get our spring upslope snowstorm. Joel Gratz of OpenSnow, wrote of the models that forecast storms, predicting 1-2 feet of new snow, favoring the east side of the…
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It is spilling. Just two weeks ago, the brown rim around the reservoir exposed just how low the water had gotten. Just a month ago, the water had receded so much that rocks and roots were exposed everywhere. Now, in seemingly the blink of the eye, it is filled to…
Continue readingAll that remains are a few stone walls. Nature has reclaimed the rest of what was once a vibrant mining town located high in the mountains near the Continental Divide. Now the Columbine flowers bloom, and the green grasses blow in the winds. Marmots scurry among the boulders that dot…
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