Rain! To fully appreciate it, your state has to have recently suffered the most expensive fire in its history, the Fourmile Canyon fire near Boulder that destroyed 167 homes. You have to have just endured the hottest September 19 in Denver history — 96°. You have to have driven up to Rocky Mountain National Park … Continue reading Rain in the Rockies
The peaks, the clouds, the storms, the animals, the streams. A hummingbird, a pine cone, a bugling elk, white water, clouds forming in a valley far below, driving into the clouds. The wind sighing in the pines, the streams roaring and burbling, aspen leaves clacking together in the breeze, the sights and sounds of nothing … Continue reading I’d like to show my child the mountains
I finally got my act together yesterday and headed into the mountains for a little leaf peeping and a fried trout lunch in Estes Park. Then I opted for wildlife over shopping and drove up into Rocky Mountain National Park for some daytime elk viewing. Usually the elk only come down into the meadows in … Continue reading Rocky Mountain matinee
My grandfather was the first concessionaire here in the park. He had the park service contract to bring people here so they could experience Rocky Mountain National Park. In my veins runs the blood which is the result of my mother drinking the water of the streams and the rivers that eventually joined the streams … Continue reading OMG, Palinese is contagious!
Climb because it’s there Continue reading Beaver on Longs Peak
It’s that time of year in Rocky Mountain National Park. Tourism slows when the snow flies, but there’s always a lot to see … Continue reading Somebody’s watching you
