Hiking is my other hobby. Do you love hiking too? There is so much of the spiritual life in the world of the wilds … and, to be honest, the adventurer in me just won’t let me stop looking for what’s around the next bend in the trail. Running water has always spoken to me of eternity.
My hiking group and I have gone a lot of places in Wyoming and Colorado, and I’ve solved a lot of the problems of being a woman of my era while walking beside not-always like minded people. The Wyoming Cabin Trip stands out.
And above we are at Colorado National Monument. The story about that hike was called The Grandma War.
My father was a great one for hiking and for going out in the wilds in a canoe as well. I like to think about him when I’m out there. I think I inherited this from him. The desire to be in wild places, walking to see what I can see. I wonder what you, reader, find to feel and see when you’re out there?
It came time this week for the Mountain’s Edge People, my beloved Meetup hiking group, to challenge our local landmark: the Horsetooth Rock Hike. Five miles out and back, with a rise of about 1,400, this is the Fort Collins hike. The one everyone knows. The one all the college students must do once. Though […]
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Have I ever mentioned that I am perhaps a bit stubborn and a bit slow to change directions? There’s an axiom from the world of commodities and stocks: Your first loss is your best loss. Which is another way of saying “don’t throw good money after bad.” That came up while hiking in the rain
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What is it? The hiking trails at Arapaho Bend rate as “pretty amazing, considering where they’re located,” to me. Arapaho Bend is one of Fort Collins many Natural Areas. The trail loop network runs a total distance of 4 miles. These trails loop around ponds created from abandoned gravel pits. Hikers, boaters, horsemen and runners
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What is it? “Deep crimson and tan rocks, rolling grasslands, and sandy washes await you at Red Mountain Open Space,” according to the Larimer County website. The park is comprised of nearly 16,000 acres. Our Fort-Collins-based hiking meetup group visited Red Mountain Open Space on Saturday. Thirty or so of us hiked eight miles across
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Are There Exposures in Everyday Life as Well? What is a hike with exposure? We’re talking about cliffs. I belong to one MeetUp group of backpackers who keep posting trips I’m not sure I could survive. Doesn’t matter what clothes I wore, or what brand of backpack I managed to get. They just sounded hard.
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It’s all about the gear, people. There’s even a name for it: The mountain person who has too much gear is a Gearhead. But the fact is, never mind all those people who want to be fashionable in the mountains. The truth is, fashion has little place out here. Outside Magazine Tells the Hipster Millenial
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Now it is Friday and the meetup hiking cabin trip is in the past. The wooden cabin covered with snow, the kitchen with pans and gadgets and dull knives and a big table in the middle with benches like in a lumber camp that sits eight, it’s history. How did it go, my friends asked
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