A couple days in a row now, Elaine and I have expanded our skiing adventures to get way back up in the mountains. Places we normally only venture to in the summer. Two observations: 1. In my opinion, the mountains… Continue reading

At 4 am, the village sleeps. Two headlights stir from the north side of the valley, joined in their illumination by the Milky Way galaxy – Orion, the Dippers, Nahga. Six-inches of fluff puffs away like talcom powder with our… Continue reading

100 mph winds predicted for tomorrow. Six inches of new snow. What's that equate to?  Heinousness predicted tomorrow morning. And yet, the stoke is high, as Elaine does Victoria Secret pajamas right by waxing up for the adventure. The 8th… Continue reading

New Years resolution – write and create everyday, even on days with 15 hours of travel, delayed flights, overly inquisitive border guards and cramped sardine flights. Stories to tell, but first…sleep. Day started with a sunrise skin, ended in Nelson,… Continue reading

Following the floods, it's been a snowy autumn, so we've taken advantage and gotten some skiing in. Most of it was very marginal, but today, day four of the season for us actually had some decently deep snow and we… Continue reading

And with a blink, fall's peak has passed at 8,800 feet above sea level. Most of the leaves are on the ground, losing life and color. We now enter the silent and stark season where the mountains are vacated and… Continue reading

It's time to check in after an extended absence. What a September we had here in Nederland, Colorado! As I'm sure most of you know, we experienced a major flood in the area and it wrecked havoc on lives here.… Continue reading

The mountains are addictive. Personally, I couldn't imagine a life where they were not part of my daily fabric. You'd think after all this time that I'd grow tired of the them, but I don't. Maybe it's the light that… Continue reading

I may have a new love: running on trails above timberline. I've never been much of a runner, but there is something about running uphill in the late summer tundra that is hard to beat. I experienced runners high, that… Continue reading