During our rain delay of our desert hike in Rattlesnake Canyon, Rich and I popped over to Grand Mesa for about a day and a half. During that time, we went out for a couple hikes, and I had asked a Forest Ranger if there…
Category: Colorado
My last few days in Colorado, which season I was in seemed to depend on the elevation… Just a slight difference of only a couple hundred feet made the difference between beautiful autumn among the aspens or the first snowfalls on the mountains.
I made two visits to Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge (RMANWR from now on), both when I was picking Rich up from the airport and again after dropping him off because it is basically right next to the airport. The refuge basically consists of…
Rich and I had intentionally started this hike somewhat later in the day to avoid some of the worst of the heat (that didn’t work), and we calculated that we would have plenty of time to take a leisurely pace and have no problems (that…
During a hike outside of Montrose, Colorado, I stumbled upon several bleached skeletons scattered in the same area. I am not even sure what kind of animals these skeletons are from, but from the looks of it, they’d been there a while. Since I wasn’t…
When I was in Palmer Lake I took a quick afternoon trip down to Garden of the Gods Park. Some of the rock formations had fun names like “Kissing Camels”, “Siamese Twins”, and “Cathedral Spires”. On top of that, the day was incredibly sunny with…
Ok – not technically on the Argentine Pass or Peak, but on the way out we passed a sign we hadn’t seen on the way in labeled “Pennsylvania Mine” and also could see a massive structure that was falling apart on the other side of…
During a visit to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge (which is not far from the Denver airport), I was driving along the refuge’s main wildlife drive road and happened to spot a coyote out in the field… I quickly stopped the car and…
On a hike outside of Nederland, Colorado, I was on the lookout for elk or moose… the trail was going downhill and then turning to the left and back uphill with an area further down the hill that was somewhat open and looked like good…
Fourmile Falls is a little bit of a misnomer… the falls are only three miles in on the trail… but I guess it is named that because the creek is Fourmile Creek. Anyway, I photographed this waterfall on a hike outside of Pagosa Springs and…
On the suggestion from my friend Dawn (who was super helpful with suggestions during my time in Colorado), Rich and I backpacked into Rattlesnake Canyon for one night. Actually, I guess I should back up the story a little bit right there… We originally were…
As promised, some alpine flowers and plants. I was surprised to see the succulents up there, but I found them really cool.
Alright, kind of a weird post here… and I normally am not one to do this much post processing on photos – either they are good in the camera or they get deleted. I mean sure, sometimes if the subject is really good I’ll do…
This is an odd one for me, and I’m not sure if it was Google Maps or AllTrails that I was scrolling around looking for places to check out and randomly the trail for Doc Holliday’s Grave Trail popped up. It is located in Glenwood…
