The morning air was brisk and the sounds…unusual. Typically, we want wilderness when we set out: going to great lengths to seek settings of solitude, pursuing peace and quiet. The unusual sounds? The thunder of cars and semis barreling along I-70. Never before had we started a hike so close to a major interstate, but […]
Read more "Fountain of Booth"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 […]
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