“Now the Santa Fe Trail belongs to the keening wind. It belongs to summer rains and to the fearful snows of winter. It is owned by the prairie dog, the jackrabbit, the rattlesnake… And for a brief interval it is mine, by adoption, since I choose to stake my claim on a tiny fragment of […]
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Learning About the Sand Creek Massacre
“Treat the Earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.” – Indian Proverb, posted at Sand Creek The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is about a three hours […]
Hiking Mueller State Park
Mueller State Park, just south of Divide, Colorado, is my new favorite spot in Colorado. For a very long time that spot was held by Rocky Mountain National Park, but in my visit yesterdaythe beauty of Mueller trumped it. My only disappointment is that we only had a limited period of time to visit the […]
Hiking the Florissant Fossil Beds
I’ve lived in Colorado for nine years and just today finally went to see the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. I’ve been wanting to go for so long, but just never really took the time to do so until now. I picked up a friend early this morning and we made the two hour drive, […]
Hiking Cherry Creek State Park
I’ve lived in the Denver metropolitan area for nine years and had not set foot in Cherry Creek State Parkuntil today. The park, which is popular with water sports enthusiasts, hikers and bikers, sits right in the middle of the greater metro area, and I’ve drive by it tons of times, but it’s always been […]
Hiking Eldorado Canyon State Park
I’m going to make it a point to get back up to Eldorado Canyon State Park this summer to do another couple of hikes. I was there just this past week with a friend and a visiting journalist from Germany to do a hike and I really enjoyed it. But one hike in there seemed […]
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