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“The three of us are moving to Denver in a couple of weeks and listing the house.” I re-read the text again. Did it say what I thought it said? Our neighbor of the last seven years since we moved to Nederland is moving. And he’s moving to the big…
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Working in Lake Tahoe for four winters for a cross-country ski touring center, I’m well aware how difficult it can be for these types of centers to make money. Downhill skiing is by far the more glamorous sport, both in terms of its top athletes and the amount of money…
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The Wilderness Act, signed into law in 1964, created the National Wilderness Preservation System and recognized wilderness as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain….an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval…
Continue readingAs I walked down the trail, I glimpse the sign in the distance. Weathered, the light brown color fading, it marks a special boundary. Indian Peaks Wilderness. While this sign in simple terms means relatively little, in larger terms wilderness symbolizes so much more. Particularly in the world we live…
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