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Breaking the Isolation

The photos showed clear blue skies, sparkling lakes, snow-capped peaks and — people in khaki uniformed shirts smiling.  Memories of days on the trail in the Indian Peaks Wilderness overwhelmed me. All of this came up because as April has rolled around, I find myself interviewing prospective volunteers for this…

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The Quest for Gas

As we wound around the curve in the dark and fog, a bright orange light came on. Uh oh. The symbol of the gas tank gave me pangs of anxiety.  We’d come about a third of the way up the canyon.  Should we push on hoping we had enough to…

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Am I Crazy?

When we first moved to Nederland ten years ago, we did so to live in the mountains.  We didn’t know much about this town of 1,500, other than it lay on the doorstep of the Indian Peaks Wilderness.  But we soon came to find out that throughout Colorado, Nederland had…

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