Southern Rockies Nature Blog

The view from my tent Winter camping It's the third day, and my hands are already looking wrinkled and cracked. It's so easy t...

Interstate 5 in southern Oregon, with a sign reading "San Francisco." When I was a college student — and for a while afterward...

This map shows only the automated SNOTEL sites, which are at high altitudes. It looks pretty good, but my local meteorologist, who falls i...

I have been outside splitting wood this morning, but I know that my firewood quality does not measure up to these guys. Is it even "fi...

This is the time of year when people are booking tours to the dance grounds (leks) of sage grouse and prairie chickens. If the tours are...

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...

Reconstruction of a man checking the roof on his house framed with mammoth bones. (The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, S.D.) Recent Web-su...

Goodnight's barn — the oldest standing structure in Pueblo? "Charles Goodnight c. 1880" (late 40s) by University of Okl...

When I posted those snowpack numbers, I knew that for the Arkansas River drainage, where I live, the better-than-average figure represented ...

Lots more information at the National Weather and Climate Center .

Bear enjoying late-season tomatoes. More links that I need to clear . . .  • " The Hermit: New Mexico's First Mountaineer...

Chef Jess Noy. See squirrel item. I too often save a link to blog about it but them am too busy to do so. So here they are! All free! ...

Maybe not. I am better at thinking about the migration paths of elk than the migration paths of galaxies. But it is a stunning video....

"Local" decor in the new Trader Joe's grocery store in Colorado Springs. Via the Bigfoot Lunch Club blog, Animal Planet...

The Fiddlin' Foresters Am I opening presents early, when Smokeymas is still a week away? Not really, I found this CD, "In the L...