The Great Sand Dunes National Park has eluded me for years. I have attempted to visit it three times, and even though it resides in the same states as I have for these past years I have failed to make it each of those attempts. This year Imelda, Timmy, Moose,...
Moose and I took the short 3 mile hike from our camp, up the Aspen Alley trail which then connects to the Whoop-Di-Do trail leading us back to Big Blue waiting in the shade of the pine. The Aspen Alley part of the trail really lived up to it’s name....
Just outside of Nederland, Colorado is West Magnolia Campground in the National Forest. I had never been here before, only just spotting it on the map the week before, so it became the target of my weekend out of the city. An early Friday morning drive up was to secure...
I played hooky from work today and went across town to Union Reservoir where the 35th annual Kinetic Sculpture Race was happening. What is a Kinetic Sculpture Race? “Teams build human powered vehicles that must complete a course that goes over land, water, and various other obstacles (both intended and...
This weekend was the annual Home on the Grange event, only a few miles outside of Longmont. The event was showcasing some vintage trailers, and since I got a thing for ’em, I set out with my camera…
In a second day in a row of physical activities (aka – Conor trying to kill me) we set out on our mountain bikes to re-tackle a trail we did years back when Conor first came to Colorado; Hall Ranch. I struggled, of course, but ended fighting off a few...
Conor and I can no longer say we have never hiked in the Wild Basin area of the National Park. On Tuesday we set out to photo Ouzel Falls, roughly a 3 mile hike each way. A side benefit to hiking up in the National Park was the temperature was...
I have been wondering if I made the right choice; choosing some extra cash over my freedom for the summer. It certainly is not feeling like the right choice, but I can’t fight it that the extra cash has been coming in handy. The biggest problem is the lack of...
Each year the ColoRODans (get it?) have cruise nights in downtown Longmont. People line the streets with the lawn chairs from 3rd Street to 23rd Street to watch, or take part in, the 3-mile long cruise. I was no exception, choosing to head down to my favorite watering hole to...
