Eagles Nest Wilderness: A Quest for Miserable Bliss
Surprisingly, the ever-so-close-to-Denver Eagles Nest Wilderness offers the same amount of solace that is found in a serious episode of binge drinking. After a handful of inconveniences in which me and my backpacking companion felt confined to either the Lost Creek Wilderness or to the Mount Evans Wilderness (for matters of geographic convenience in relation … Read more
A Local Respite: Clear Creek Open Space
Two days a week, for two to three hours, I fish. I justify those hours with hedonistic calculus and guard them with the threat of insanity if I don’t get them. I never wanted to be that guy who lived to deceive other animals (beside humans) and who made their sport so sacred as to … Read more
REI Mars 80 Pack: A Plush, Greek Deity
Built to handle heavy loads with all the creature comforts, the newly updated REI Mars 80 pack handles extended backpacking in any season. REI Mars 80 Pack 5out of 5 Pros: Good Suspension, Comfortable, Large Capacity, Good Padding, Highly Adjustable Best Uses: Extended Hikes, Heavy Loads Describe Yourself: Avid Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: … Read more
Spanish Streets
These photos are from a trip I took a year ago to Salamanca and San Sebastian. Many of the photos were taken from hip level, discretely, so that the people on the streets would not spook. This will hopefully give a feel to walking ancient streets in the midst of giant, antiquital egos.
Slab Avalanches, Hoar Frost & Fog
“The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year. I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Language of Nature and Romance.
Wind chilled the sweat on our skin while we paused our journey through a steep glacial valley. Our resting place was in a thick stand of aspens and the mid-morning sun shone from directly overhead illuminating the spade shaped leaves. They were iridescent and in the wind they shimmered like scales on the side of … Read more
Boulder Velodrome Brings Latin Back to Biking
Posted by sainteterre on March 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment
[An article Jason wrote for the University of Colorado's student paper, The Advocate.] Original article Leave it to the cycle geeks in Boulder to build something called a velodrome. In order to understand this awkward Latinate word, and why it literally means “track-for-speed,” I went to Boulder Indoor Cycling Center to see what object merited … Read more
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