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Spring in the Colorado Rocky Mountains can be a tease. One day, temperatures soar to 60 degrees and you swear spring has arrived. The next, it’s 20 degrees and snowing. On those warm days, summer feels like it is just around the corner. I long for a good hike. But…
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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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“My question is, what if there is an emergency situation, like someone has a heart attack, or there is a fire. What is the plan?” “There is no plan.” What? Did I hear that right? Having been through the ordeal of The Cold Springs Wildfire, a contingency plan for emergencies…
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If you fly over the Rocky Mountains along the Front Range, you’ll see amoeba-shaped blobs of water dotting the landscape. But most of those blobs aren’t natural lakes, they are instead reservoirs. In fact, my hometown of Nederland, Colorado is perched upon the shores of Barker Reservoir. Reservoirs and the…
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