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I Accidentally Got Lost in 1958

I Accidentally Got Lost in 1958

Colorado River Grand Junction to Moab: An Old Cowboy Kid Photographer’s Candy Store

Follow Pat down the Colorado River from Grand Junction to Moab and into the red-rock landscapes that helped create Hollywood’s American West. Travel Highway 128 through Dewey Bridge, Professor Valley, Fisher Towers and Red Cliffs Lodge while exploring Western movie history, rafting, fishing, wildlife and some of the finest riverside camping in Utah.

Climate Change: What the Data Actually Shows with Geologist Scott Tinker

Climate Change: What the Data Actually Shows with Geologist Scott Tinker

Cool Heights and Summer Hail: A Family Hike at Ski Santa Fe

Cool Heights and Summer Hail: A Family Hike at Ski Santa Fe

Sand, Screams, and the Serpent’s Tail: The Defiant Magic of Cliff’s Amusement Park in Albuquerque

Sand, Screams, and the Serpent’s Tail: The Defiant Magic of Cliff’s Amusement Park in Albuquerque

Sparking the Semiquincentennial: The Night Santa Fe Blended Pixels and Pyrotechnics

Sparking the Semiquincentennial: The Night Santa Fe Blended Pixels and Pyrotechnics

Redefining the Skyline: The Night Santa Fe Reimagined the 4th of July

Redefining the Skyline: The Night Santa Fe Reimagined the 4th of July

I Ain’t Lazy, I’m Worn Out

I Ain’t Lazy, I’m Worn Out

Eagle Cam

Eagle Cams

Big Bear https://youtu.be/B4-L2nfGcuE 1 Hatch 3-3-2022 https://youtu.be/Xx0nese3zL8 Naples https://youtu.be/wQBqK3kYX-o Hatch late December 2021 https://youtu.be/o07ThtFa0Qc https://youtu.be/Q6Fg9pkztZc

Coyotes Eufy

Coyotes Returning From a Nights Hunt

Security camera video of a pack passing by on their return home from a cold, successful I hope, nights hunt. Three others appear screen right about 30 yards out midway through the video.

Valley of the Gods Monoliths Mavic 2

Valley of the Gods Monoliths

The beautiful Cedar Mesa sandstone monoliths, pinnacles and other geological features of this enchanting area are known as a Miniature Monument Valley. These sandstone sentinels were eroded by wind and water over eons of time. The 17 mile loop through the Valley of...

Valley of the Gods Washes Mavic 2

Valley of the Gods Washes

The Valley of the Gods may is accessible by a 17-mile gravel road that winds around the formations. The road is rather steep and bumpy in parts but is passable by non-four-wheel drive vehicles in dry weather. This road can be accessed from either Utah Highway 261...

Valley of the Gods 06-08-2021 Mavic 2

Valley of the Gods 06-08-2021

The Valley of the Gods is a scenic sandstone valley near Mexican Hat in San Juan County, southeastern Utah, United States. The Valley of the Gods may is accessible by a 17-mile gravel road that winds around the formations. The road is rather steep and bumpy in parts...

Rocky Mountain National Park Highway to the Sky Hero 9

Rocky Mountain National Park Highway to the Sky

Covering the 48 miles between Estes Park on the park's east side and Grand Lake on the west, Trail Ridge Road, CO 34, more than lives up to its advanced billing. Eleven miles of this high highway travel above treeline, the elevation near 11,500 feet where the park's...

Mushroom Rocks - Rocky Mountain National Park Hero 9

Mushroom Rocks – Rocky Mountain National Park

The Tundra Communities Trail to Mushroom Rocks is a good opportunity to stretch your legs and experience dramatic panoramic views of the Rockies. Best of all get a sense of how harsh an environment these mountain peaks are with a biting cold wind in the dead of...

Caribou Mine Hiking Nederland, Colorado Hero 9

Caribou Mine Hiking Nederland, Colorado

The town was established in the early 1870s for workers of Caribou silver mine. The silver mine did well and by 1875 at its peak, about 3,000 people lived in town. There was a church, three saloons, a brewery, and a town newspaper, the Caribou Post. The Caribou silver...

Big Thompson River Fly Fishing Hero 9

Big Thompson River Fly Fishing

The Big Thompson River is about 78 miles long and originates in the Rocky Mountains within the Forest Canyon. Big Thompson, or “The Big T,” as it’s nicknamed, is an easy river to follow as it goes along Highway 34, right beside higher populated areas like Loveland....

Saint Catherine's Chapel on the Rock Hero 9

Saint Catherine’s Chapel on the Rock

The Chapel on the Rock is a functioning Catholic chapel and tourist landmark in Allenspark, Colorado, USA. The chapel is located on the grounds of the Saint Malo Retreat, Conference, and Spiritual Center of the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver. The chapel is open to the...

Eldora Mountain Ski Area Peterson Lake Hero 9

Eldora Mountain Ski Area Peterson Lake

Eldora Mountain Resort is a ski area in the southwest corner of Boulder County, Colorado, near the unincorporated community of Eldora and 3 miles west of the town of Nederland. Nederland is a statutory town located near Barker Meadow Reservoir in the foothills of...

Barker Reservoir Recreation Area Hiking Trail Hero 9

Barker Reservoir Recreation Area Hiking Trail

Short lakeside hiking trail near Nederland, Colorado. Nederland is a statutory town located near Barker Meadow Reservoir in the foothills of southwest Boulder County, Colorado, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census it had a population of 1,445. Barker...

Colorado Moose - North Park - Walden FZ2500

Colorado Moose – North Park – Walden

RAW, remote, tucked deep in Colorado's rugged Rockies, the high valley of North Park and its County of Jackson literally scream FRONTIER and a past fast-held in present days. Isolated North Park, a high mountain valley encompassing Jackson County, requires resilience...

Lake Agnes Hike August 20, 2021 Hero 9

Lake Agnes Hike August 20, 2021

Lake Agnes is an alpine lake in the Colorado State Forest State Park occurring within the Never Summer Mountain Range. The lake lies within glacial tarn surrounded by a cirque consisting of Nokhu Crags, Static Peak, Mount Richthofen, Mount Mahler, and Braddock Peak....

Valley of the Gods with Monument Valley on the Horizon Mavic 2

Valley of the Gods with Monument Valley on the Horizon

Valley of the Gods is a scenic backcountry area is southeastern Utah, near Mexican Hat. It is a hidden gem with scenery similar to that of nearby Monument Valley. Valley of the Gods offers isolated buttes, towering pinnacles and wide open spaces that seem to go on...

A Smokey Late Summer Morning In Walden Colorado

A Smokey Late Summer Morning In Walden Colorado

Thick smoke from California and Oregon wildfires pollute the crisp, 36 degree, morning air and steal my view of the beautiful snow capped peaks above the Illinois River near Walden, Colorado. Forestry mismanagement is taking a toll on tourism in the Rockies! Walden,...

Moraine Park - Rocky Mountain National Park August 2021 Hero 9

Moraine Park – Rocky Mountain National Park August 2021

Moraine Park, Colorado is an expansive valley along one of the most scenic drives in Rocky Mountain National Park. Not only will you enjoy watching many kinds of wildlife, but also wildflowers bloom with an array of color in the spring. Big Thompson River flows...