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Mesa Verde National Park – Balcony House
The last day in Mesa Verde began with our last breakfast at the ARAMARK cafeteria. After this day, we’d at least have options for food, but up on the mesa, it was compromise, compromise, compromise....
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Final Stop – Pagosa Springs, Colorado
To end the trip with fresh peaches, or to end the trip with hot springs? That was the question. And an easy question at that. For 10 years now, I’ve been wanting to take my wife to Colorado’s best hot...
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Graspin’ Aspen 2010 – Steamboat Springs
Since 2007, Hailey and I have made a special long-weekend trip in the fall to Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Yep, the same Steamboat Springs that seems to grace every other post on this blog. I know. We...
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Fall Color at the Maroon Bells
(Click on images for a larger view) I’ve struggled to photograph the Maroon Bells in the past. Struggled because of two things: (1) everybody has photographed them and an original angle is getting more...
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Trappers Lake – Flat Tops Wilderness, Colorado
Click on images for a larger view. Summer’s end is fast approaching, which usually means two things in Colorado: luscious Palisade peaches are in season, and most of us are wondering whether we got...
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The Moment: Star Trails Over Western Colorado
(Click on image for a larger view). The highlight of my trip to the Trappers Lake and the Flat Tops area was hanging out with my dad in a rustic, 400-square-foot cabin in the woods. I cooked up...
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The Moment: New Year’s Day, Roxborough Park
Roxborough State Park — located about 45 minutes southwest of Denver — has long been a favorite stomping ground for me, especially in the last 11 years, since my parents moved out that way. It’s...
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Photographing Great Sand Dunes National Park – Part 1 Medano Creek
(click on images for a larger view) Colorado is having a lean year. Not in terms of the economy, or even sports (yes, the Rockies are a farcical shit show, but we now have Peyton Manning). No, I’m...
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Photographing Great Sand Dunes National Park – Part 2 (Into the Dune Field)
So I set forth into the Great Sand Dunes with 32 ounces of water and my camera backpack. Climbing into the dunes is an exercise in deception. The approach is easy — perhaps a quarter mile over tightly...
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Backpacking in the Holy Cross Wilderness, Colorado
Halfway down a broken hill — where the trail under my feet was gnarled with roots and busted slabs of granite — I came to a realization of sorts: Backpacking was a coming of age. As a 20-year-old, I...
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Steamboat Springs & Eagle Rock Ranch, Colorado
It’s the summer that won’t start! Now, only in Colorado! Seriously: as I write this, it is snowing on Berthoud Pass. Aspen Mountain opened to skiers … on Memorial Day. We cancelled our Mother’s Day...
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Camping with Kids at Pearl Lake State Park, Colorado
Each summer as a kid, I could always count on at least one family camping trip to Pearl Lake State Park north of Steamboat Springs. It would usually be the highlight of my summer break. Deep in the...
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Skiing, Eating & Drinking at Aspen Highlands
In the age of GoPros, it might seem a little stupid to ski with a Canon 5D camera system and three lenses, especially if you are shooting for yourself and not a commercial client. The excess bulk, the...
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Photographing the Black Canyon of the Gunnison (South Rim)
The way we quantify grandeur can sometimes be amusing. Take for instance, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in southwest Colorado. “There are deeper canyons in North America, and there are narrower...
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Camping South of Telluride with Kids
Children do interesting things to your life. Most of them are soul-rockingly wonderful, others are just major adjustments — for me at least, very little of it has been negative. To see Exhibit 243A on...
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