April 2012
5 posts
Medicine Bow
100 feet of soft spring snow. That’s all that stood between us and a comfortable night of camping. Let me explain: We pulled the 4runner off the highway twenty miles from the nearest town and drove four miles on a dirt road up to the entrance of Medicine Bow National Forest, just over the Colorado border into Wyoming. It was four in the afternoon, and some of the nearby hills were covered in...
Denver and Boulder: A fire to flee from
When we arrived in Denver, a fire had just ignited outside of town. A mistake on the hands of the forestry service, attempting a controlled burn that spun wildly, uncontrollably, fatally out of control. They say it was the fastest spreading wildfire in history, covering over 4,000 acres in a matter of a couple days. We saw what we thought was a huge dust cloud, as the weather had forecasted...
Into the Great Sand Dunes
Just North of the the New Mexico border into Colorado, we made our way into the Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains and parked the mud splattered car at the base of one of the most amazing landscapes we had yet to come across. Out of the car and on foot, we trudged into the flat span of land that lead up to the Great Sand Dunes, through rabbitbrush and with snow capped mountains on three sides,...
Bishop's Castle
“Oh well you don’t have the right to call this a castle.”
“Oh I don’t?”
“No, you’re not of royal blood. You cant call this a castle.”
“I’ll call it any fucking thing I wanna call it!”
Jim Bishop, Castle Builder, will call his life’s work any “fucking” thing he wants to call it. After all, he has been single handedly building the entire structure since 1969. His latest...
New Mexico: Our Gateway to the Rockies
New Mexico is one hell of a state. We awoke at Bottomless Lakes State Park just outside Roswell. We had just finished our first night of camping and spirits were high, while temperatures weren’t. It must have been 30 degrees outside, making it the coldest weather we had experienced on the trip so far.
The desert is brutal and beautiful, and by the time we had gotten into Roswell to get a cup of...
