January 2020
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Colorado Hikes: Mayflower Gulch (winter version)
Mayflower Gulch is a beautiful winter destination! The only downfall is that to get there from the Front Range, one must brave the ski traffic on I-70. And boy does that suck. We were on the road before dawn and traffic was already building. It took an extra 30 minutes to get there and an… Continue reading
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A comprehensive guide to winter hiking
I never really gave any thought to winter hiking until we moved to Colorado. I’d been snowshoeing twice, but that’s about it. Here in Colorado, though, there are some truly stunning winter hiking opportunities, so we decided to tackle a new challenge. Before heading out for a hike in winter conditions, there are some additional… Continue reading
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Colorado Destinations: Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge
If ever there was an area of the US with a bizarre history, this is it. Even the name – which combines ‘arsenal’ and ‘wildlife’ into the same sentence – suggests that this land has quite the storied past. Located immediately northeast of Denver, the land encompassed today by Rocky Mountain Arsenal used to be… Continue reading
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Colorado Bucket List: Hanging Lake
There are a few things that, when you visit or live in Colorado, you just have to do. Some of them are silly and some of them are excessively popular and some of them are probably pretty cliché. But some of them are also on the must-do list for a reason. As we work our… Continue reading
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A Year in Review: #52HikeChallenge 2019
In 2019, for the first time ever, I participated in the 52 Hike Challenge. This is exactly what it sounds like: the challenge of completing 52 hikes in 52 weeks. The only guidelines are that the hike should be at least 1 mile (1.6 km) long, you can complete a maximum of 1 hike per… Continue reading
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