Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Portions of Backcountry Discovery Routes in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. T his blog post's title quotes a comment on anoth...

Last April, while visiting the Virginia coast for my wife's family reunion (more on that below), I held out for the one thing that I wan...

No one is ever on the sidewalks in Clayton, New Mexico. Its population has trended down since 1960 , and if you want to visit a store or oth...

Sample OnX map. An article on "corner-cutting," public access, and whether landowners own airpace over property corners makes it t...

W hen Henryk Sienkiewicz crossed the Great Plains on his way to California and adventure in 1876 , I assume his train took the "Golden ...

  St. Mary's Holy Dormition Orthodox Church, situated on the prairie east of Colorado Springs. When I set out on the annual trip to Nort...

The county Road and Bridge department put this up on the road that I travel now and then. I appreciate what they are trying to do — in a c...

Let Siri pick a route, and turn on the cruise control. I am driving through West Texas in April, so it is highly unlikely that GPS direc...

Moormans River, near Free Union, Virginia M. and I rolled in Sunday the 30th after a long train trip to Virginia to see (most) of her ...

Along US 20 in the Nebraska Sandhills "Pastoralists often have the same distinct qualities of personality regardless of the regio...

The bridge across the Missouri River on US 212 near Charger's Camp. Friday found me driving through western South Dakota's butte...

Northbound, breaking free of the Colorado Front Range corridor I don't drive Interstate 25 north of Denver very often, but when I do...

• Craig Childs' Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America won a special jury award at the Banff Mountain Book Festival .  T...

You probably missed this because you were watching migrating birds or something, but National Grasslands Week was June 18th-24th . Or m...

Last weekend at Sylvan Lake State Park , the solar lantern just was not bright enough for both M's and my reading, so I fired up the s...

Trail signs, Colorado National Monument. America's best recreational value. Maybe someone realized that ten dollars for a lifet...

Women carrying cassava root (?) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Some time ago, I blogged a fascinating tale of South American e...

Outdoor Survival - Chapter 4 - Controlling Panic from Colorado Parks & Wildlife on Vimeo . •  People outside of Fremont County, C...

WMI instructor Amy Shambarger demonstrates creating a quick compression splint. Last weekend was devoted to the two-day wilderness firs...

Screen shot of the area around Florence this morning. Apparently, The Kid is paying us a visit, having dropped six inches (15 cm, 1/3 cu...