Environment

High clouds floating through today from a closed low off the California coast that is spinning warm air  into western Colorado  and carrying impressive moisture on SW flow..  But with weak storm dynamics (low vorticity/vertical instability), warm temps & mostly orographics for moisture production the...

[caption id="attachment_46739" align="aligncenter" width="600"] X-Country, Lizard Head Pass[/caption] Kris Abrams is a nature-based psychotherapist and shamanic practitioner with Cedar Tree Healing Arts. I found her story, “10 Reasons Why We Feel So good in Nature” in EcoWatch and thought it was well worthing sharing – before or after...

Our dry weather will soon be history with the start of another storm cycle carried on a moist Pacific trough moving into the Colorado mountains beginning mid to late day Saturday.  A cold front associated with the system will make things interesting.  Snowfall should begin...

[caption id="attachment_46479" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Sunny Colorado[/caption] Funny how sometimes a seemingly negative event can have positive effects. Case in point: our primary credit card was one of many recently compromised, resulting in a new credit card number. Today I was on the phone with Jeanne Bassett...

Southwest Colorado Resort of Telluride receives 33" in latest snowstorm [caption id="attachment_46427" align="aligncenter" width="191"] Snow god Ullr smiles on Telluride.[/caption] After a fairly dry fall, Norse snow god Ullr decided to smile on the Southwest Colorado town of Telluride. The ski area is now blanketed in snow after...

I don't watch TV much. I don't really watch TV at all—we don't have a cable or satellite account, so the only programs I see are on the  iPad, the occasional series that was popular enough to replay on Netflix or YouTube snippets of Jon...

[caption id="attachment_45695" align="alignnone" width="600"] Wilson Range behind Mountain Village[/caption] "Telluride? Big mistake- you"ll never leave!" I had stayed for a few days with my friend Rico in Aspen, was headed for some solo camping in the Canyonlands, and got a noon-ish start because of a mid-fall snowstorm...

[caption id="attachment_45324" align="aligncenter" width="704"] A group of Waura Indians fish in the Puilanga Lake near their village in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil's Mato Grosso state. 2005.[/caption] Rena Silverman, met up with the photographer Sebastiao Salgado, in New York City on Thursday and conducted a...

[caption id="attachment_45287" align="alignright" width="199"] The start of the trail[/caption] When you have kids, you give up a few things. Sleep. Money. Time. You accept the trade-off: deprivation for family. Andy and I were down with all of that. But one thing we weren’t okay with giving...