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Little Church on the Colorado Prairie
Two historic Orthodox churches rise from the shortgrass prairie in eastern Colorado five miles north of Calhan. The humble churches...
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![Celebrating the Autumnal Equinox](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/396ca8_18f92d86c2d641d08a6dba44874bea18~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_319,h_240,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/396ca8_18f92d86c2d641d08a6dba44874bea18~mv2.webp)
Celebrating the Autumnal Equinox
Tomorrow morning at 7:30 Mountain Daylight Time marks the Autumnal Equinox, the day when the celestial equator passes over the midpoint...
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Bullet the Blue Sky: Climbing Photo Perfection
This perfect climbing photograph that I shot in late 1995 depicts a climber on the perfect arete of Bullet the Blue Sky, a mega-classic...
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CLIMBING PIKES PEAK Book Signing September 19 at Mountain Chalet
I'll be signing my newest book CLIMBING PIKES PEAK: A HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE PEAK in front of the Mountain Chalet in downtown Colorado...
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A Pikes Peak Prospector Photograph by William Henry Jackson
This amazing portrait from 1900 by William Henry Jackson, entitled "A Pikes Peak Prospector," offers lots of detail of a miner'
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Coyote at the Great Sand Dunes: Omen of the Trickster
Coyote (Canis latrans) is the wily trickster of mythology, who, like Prometheus, stole fire from the gods as a gift to the people. In Native