Pioneer signatures preserved in Garden of the Gods chamber of secrets
A snowstorm ended Indian summer in the first week of November 1848. Four feet of snow blanketed the Garden of the Gods, breaking branches...
NEW RELEASE! Hiking Colorado's Hidden Gems
I’m happy to announce the release of my newest book HIKING COLORADO’S HIDDEN GEMS from FalconGuides. I not only like this book with its...
NEW! Hiking Colorado's Hidden Gems out April 1
I locked the final cover of my newest book HIKING COLORADO'S HIDDEN GEMS with FalconGuides a month ago. The 256-page book, generously...
The Cliff Cities of the Ancient Ancestors
The ancient Ancestral Puebloan people inhabited southwest Colorado over 1,000 years ago. Learn about the old ones, their cliff cities.
NEW EDITION of 1878 BOOK! "Colorado: Bits of Travel at Home" by Helen Hunt Jackson
I’m happy to announce the release of my newest book: Colorado: Bits of Travel at Home by Helen Hunt Jackson on Kindle.
The Black Canyon: Colorado's Deepest Gorge
One of my favorite places is the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in western Colorado. It's a forbidding, elemental place of raw nature, a...
Pasqueflowers: Harbinger of Colorado Spring
With the advent of April, spring hardly seems to have settled in for the season. Wind whips out of the mountains with the warming days...
Penitente Canyon: Magic and Mystery in Southern Colorado
Penitente Canyon, on the western edge of the San Luis Valley, a Connecticut-sized basin in southern Colorado, has long been a sacred...
Give the Gift of Books This Year: Check Out My New Adventure Books
Once again, it’s the annual holiday season, the giving time of the year. Most of us are trying to figure out what kind of gifts to give...
Renaming Mount Evans: Thoughts on the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
A few days ago, a formal petition was filed by the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes and The Wilderness Society with the Board...