Images from the Extreme Social Distance

I went back to the Home-country — i.e. the Four Corners — in February and March, and headed out to … More

March 1, 2020, San Juan Snowpack update

Average to middling. That describes the San Juan Mountain snowpack as of March 1 — at least at the higher … More

The 2020 water year (which started Oct. 1, 2019) began like a desiccated whimper in the San Juan Mountains of … More

While going down a wormhole the other day, I stumbled across a variety of documents on the Gold King Mine … More

Alarm bells went off throughout the Animas and San Juan River drainages this weekend when big storms and the historically … More

This story by Jonathan P. Thompson ran in the Silverton Mountain Journal in winter of 2002. Given the historic avalanche … More

Let there be no doubt: It has been a snowy winter in the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado, along … More

It’s a gray day here in Bulgaria, which has me yearning for warmer, sunnier days and the desert and mountains … More

My parents have a small garlic farm in Western Colorado in the valley of the North Fork of the Gunnison … More

Are the national parks and monuments of the American West getting overrun by hordes of tourists? The short answer: Yes. … More