Mount Washburn (Reprise)
This was my second time up to the top of this buxomous bump on the caldera in the northern area
October 8, 2014 Lunar Eclipse
In the wee hours of this very morning I hiked up Mount Washburn, bear bell tinkling away, for a view of
Tracking Ansel
The first sight of the Tetons is always a special moment. Jagged teeth rising above the buffalo plain. Jagged “teeth”,
Lander, Wyoming
We stayed the night this past Saturday-Sunday in Lander, Wyoming and it brought back a few distant memories. I must have
Lamont, Wyoming (and Halliburton and Grandma’s Café)
Lamont is now a semi-ghost town–a bit of Googling says there are now but three inhabitants (at least up through 2008).
The Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge (and C.W. McCall!)
Almost forgot…before my mind shifts away from our southern Colorado experience: Here is the song you absolutely must hear if
In the American Outback
In the American West you’ll often come across these small, private, museums. Some bizarre, others banal, always interesting. In this
Chicago Basin in Monochrome
A few images in monochrome from our recent epic adventure to Chicago Basin in the Needle Mountains near Silverton, Colorado…
A Gem in Durango
UPDATE: Sadly, Open Shutter closed it’s doors on November 30, 2016. Who would have thunk it. In Durango, Colorado–a sort
14er Report #11: Sunlight Peak, Windom Peak, Mt. Eolus, North Eolus (Fall, Standard Routes from Chicago Basin)
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed…We