Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
“This is somewhere and I’m somebody now so are you” The Mulligan Brothers We’ve been racking up quite a hiking record the last few days! Saturday we reached 12,100 feet in the San Juans and for the past two we’ve been backpacking at just over 5,000 in the Needles section of Canyonlands. For as insanely […]
Read More So Are You“give us those nice bright colors Give us the greens of summers” Paul Simon At some point in the last couple days of not doing much hiking, we decided that we were ready for a big hike. We also stumbled upon the perfect mountain playground just north of Dolores. I was actually warned by my […]
Read More Kodachrome“Where the haircuts smile” The Housemartins Today was another day that we didn’t do much, and yet the family rated it a four mountain day. It started off slowly at the HIE Cortez. I woke up at 6:30 and promptly started two loads of laundry. Then I got myself a cup of coffee from the […]
Read More Happy Hour“I can feel it comin’ back again Like a rollin’ thunder chasing the wind Forces pullin’ from the center of the earth again” Live I drew the short straw tonight. More accurately I drew the number 4 for shower order, which after two days without we were all in desperate need of. On a positive […]
Read More Lightning Crashes“We’re gone travelling so far Take us in your car Bump it in the yard We grow and bring it back to you Never losing touch with what we’ve been through” Iration Usually chill days like today leave me feeling like we didn’t do enough. Perhaps it’s just the nonstop reggae that’s been playing here […]
Read More Automatic“With a little peace and some harmony We’ll take the world together We’ll take ’em by the hand” Hootie & The Blowfish Today was a very errandy Road Trip day. First up, Fred gained a minor chip in his windshield that needed patching. We’ve made the mistake of not getting these fixed quickly enough in […]
Read More Hold My Hand“I said, I-I-I-I-I’m not your steppin’ stone” Paul Revere & The Raiders Finally a full on mountain hike! Alright, it wasn’t exactly “a mountain”, but we started low, hiked way up high, had great views of Durango below, AND smelled some pine. It was a damn fine day 18. For you stat lovers it was […]
Read More I’m Not Your Steppin Stone“All we do Crumbles to the ground” Kansas I had high hopes for our trip to Chaco this year, but it turned out that COVID is still keeping some things closed. Chaco Culture NHP is the center of Ancestral Puebloan culture and a place I’d been eager to get back to since our first stop […]
Read More Dust in the Wind“Well I’m accustomed to a smooth ride … I don’t expect to sleep through the night Paul Simon As I write this I am reclining in a camp chair with my feet up on a rock in Chaco Canyon. I’m sipping the last cold water I may get for a couple days. There are rainclouds […]
Read More The Obvious Child“I wanna be the only one for miles and miles” The Chicks Today was a totally perfect Road Trip Day. I’m going to be a little disappointed if it doesn’t end up as a 5 mountain day. It also seemed to me like our first completely normal, typical, ordinary road trip day. Perhaps that’s what […]
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