This summer has been an unusually stormy one for the state of Colorado, in turn making it more difficult to schedule hikes. With nothing but clouds in the weekend forecast, we decided to make an early morning foray to Rocky Mountain National Park. RMNP, generally best avoided during the summer months due to the insane […]
Read more "Warm Sandy Beaches"The air was starting to warm, and the snow-pack of the Rocky Mountains beginning its slow decline for the upcoming Summer. As you might imagine, the mountains in southern Colorado are some of the first to clear up every year, and this year was not an exception, even with the wild weather the state has […]
Read more "East Peak Story"In Utah, there’s a place, a National Park, known far and wide for its naturally-occurring sandstone arches, worn over the years by wind and water. This entry isn’t about that place. This entry is about an area a bit closer to the Rocky Mountains, an area East of the Colorado-Utah border: Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness. […]
Read more "Black Ridge Blues"Welcome back, one and all, to the ongoing travels and travails of the Overcast Adventurers! This episode takes myself and Skyler, along with two guests (Jessie and David) back to the dusty tracks of the Needles District in Canyonlands National Park, Utah (which we’ve visited previously; see here and here). In fact, we even returned […]
Read more "Hoodoo You Love?"This week we have just a quick post from the b-e-a-utiful Sangre de Cristo Range. The Overcast Adventurers, plus Skyler’s friends Jesse (a returning guest star) and Barkley (a dog), braved glaring sunlight to hike up to Venable Lake. The trailhead for this hike started just past the old towns of Silver Cliff and Westcliffe. […]
Read more "The Amenable Venable Lake"Picture, if you will, a country. A few hundred miles west of Norway, a few hundred miles more southeast of Iceland, and an imaginary line north from England; this country is Scotland. It was Scotland where I spent the last year studying, and it was Scotland where Skyler decided to join me for some highlands […]
Read more "I Bless The Rains Down Glen Affric Way"In our last trip to the Indian Peaks Wilderness, Ty and I trekked alongside the roaring Cascade Creek to find the remote Mirror Lake and Crater Lake, two bodies of water nestled at the foot of the Continental Divide’s western flank. The trail had started near Lake Granby, a hotspot for recreation, and the third-largest […]
Read more "Hellfire and Brimstone"Back in March, when snow still blanketed the ground in the mountains, I set out into the Wild Basin of Rocky Mountain National Park in an effort to find the sub-alpine Bluebird Lake. I trudged over five miles through the snowy landscape on a bleak, overcast day. After surpassing 10,000 feet in elevation, I began […]
Read more "Bluebird is the Word"There is an ineffable allure to the desert, showcased in Utah’s town of Moab, where tourists from across the world come to see the strange and almost alien landscape that the desert offers. This landscape recounts a geological story that began millions of years ago and continues to present day, being carried on by weathering […]
Read more "Misadventure: Just Deserts"With Skyler and I both moving on to adventures far distant from one another, we decided to do one more big hike before the upcoming year. Lone Eagle Peak towering to a fine point over Mirror Lake is an iconic image of the Rocky Mountains. The neighboring water body, Crater Lake, is another well-regarded destination […]
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