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A Day in the Ghost Town of St. Elmo, Colorado
Ever since I flew on one of my flights to Gillette, Wyoming when I witnessed the dancing, eerie green flames of Saint Elmo’s...
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The Light Rail to Denver International Airport
April 2016 marked the opening of the A line of the Denver light rail, connecting downtown Denver’s Union Station and...
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Deep Into a Colorado Gold Mine
ith my daughter, Michelle, and grandson, Ross, I drove high up into the foothills of the Rockies to about 9,000 feet in elevation...
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Reaching for the Sky: Visiting the Garden of the Gods
Think Colorado! Think Colorado Springs! Think Garden of the Gods! And there we stood at 6, 500 feet on a warm November day...
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A few days before my 79th birthday, my wife and I and two friends decided to hike Hahn’s Peak north of Steamboat Springs, just eleven miles shy of...
The steep and winding trail begins in the forests of Endo Valley and rises above tree line to the alpine heights of 13,530-foot Hagues Peak, the...
or one particular vacation, I decided to spend some quality time with my two young sons on a trip to the backcountry of Colorado—two weeks of rest...
We visited the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) with friends from Texas, one of whom was a young high school boy who wishes to become...
Within three miles of downtown Denver lies a large city park of over 100, tree-lined square blocks called Washington Park. This wonderful area, which...
Longs Peak is a beautiful climb, but it is a very trying, sixteen-mile, round-trip hike. It takes a lot of energy to gain some 5,000 vertical feet...
There is a place in Colorado Springs, Colorado USA that will absolutely take your breath away. It is called the “Garden of the Gods” and...
Maura and I drove for two hours east of Grand Junction, Colorado through pinyon pine, juniper and sagebrush country ever upward to the rim. Suddenly...
Stars shone with absolute brilliance as I drove across Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park to meet my fellow rangers who would climb...
Denver is the biggest city and the capital of the U.S state Colorado. Denver is officially nicknamed the ‘Mile-High’ city because the...
Mansion and Museum of Famous Titanic Survivor Margaret Brown A visit to downtown Denver is not complete without a tour of the Mollly Brown Home, a...
More than a third of Colorado’s 100,000 Sq miles belong to people. Forests, state parks, national parks,rivers, wilderness areas,grassland and...
Throughout the years, these dunes have always magnetically allured me as a kind of spiritual home. I never quite figured out, until this visit, why ...
As I sit down to write this, it is nearing the end of summer. In a community that boats four world class ski areas, this can be cause for...
Taking a Thousand-Year Transit at Mesa Verde Maura and I, in quest of primal times, left our home one summer morning for Mesa Verde National Park...
