I went back to the Home-country — i.e. the Four Corners — in February and March, and headed out to … More
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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
San Juan Mountain water year 2020 starts dry, but is on the upswing
The 2020 water year (which started Oct. 1, 2019) began like a desiccated whimper in the San Juan Mountains of … More
Gold King documents and map unearthed
While going down a wormhole the other day, I stumbled across a variety of documents on the Gold King Mine … More
Gold King water treatment shutdown: Bad, but not catastrophic
Alarm bells went off throughout the Animas and San Juan River drainages this weekend when big storms and the historically … More
The War for the Roads
This story by Jonathan P. Thompson ran in the Silverton Mountain Journal in winter of 2002. Given the historic avalanche … More
San Juan Snowpack 2019: Big, but not the biggest (yet)
Let there be no doubt: It has been a snowy winter in the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado, along … More
Photo essay: Summer ’18, Four Corners and beyond
It’s a gray day here in Bulgaria, which has me yearning for warmer, sunnier days and the desert and mountains … More
Last Ditch Standing: A tale of water inequality in the West
My parents have a small garlic farm in Western Colorado in the valley of the North Fork of the Gunnison … More
The inundation of Utah’s ‘Mighty Five’ national parks, in four charts
Are the national parks and monuments of the American West getting overrun by hordes of tourists? The short answer: Yes. … More