The weekend of 19 Aug 11, Tracy and I drove to Leadville, CO, to hike the 14,421 foot Mt. Massive. We stopped in Rifle, CO, on Friday night, and then drove over Hagerman Pass to take the scenic route to Leadville. Hagerman Pass was really pretty. The…
The weekend of August 12, 2011, Tracy and I headed up to Idaho and Montana to check out the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. We stayed Friday night in Idaho Falls; I wanted to drive further, but there were no hotels any closer to Salmon, ID, and I didn’t know…
I was happy in the immediate presence of nature in its most staggering grandeur, in living intimately with something so splendidly immense that all life seemed trivial in its presence. - Robert Marshall Alaska Wilderness