~ In Memory of Ralph Conkey - High Country Hunter & Wilderness Guide Extraordinaire ~ A couple of decades ago I trekked into the...

~ Hey canyon crow ~ wing-tipping the rim! ~ Riding the flow ~ of warm updrafts thin. ~ Where do you go ~ on a soaring whim? ~ What do you...

My youngest brother took this photo while visiting here this summer. He came upon it walking near the aspen grove growing along the south...

As soon as school let us loose the summer of 1969, my mother sent my sister and I away to camp. Not some screwy religious indoctrination...

In summer 2000, I chased the dot com bubble to the Front Range. That winter, I was rewarded with my first snow of the 21st century there....

Half a decade before the turn of the century, alone and wandering along northern curves and oxbows of the Rio Grande, I found this spot...

~ A True Tale About Seeking Orca ~ As the final decade of the 20th Century was coming to a close, I was beginning to get fed up with...

Spotting this during an early-summer hike along the rim of Gascon Point, a fielded guess at its common name–Alpine Thistle (sometimes...

~one leg raven ~regarding my churn ~steaming and black mud splattered ~saying nothing that mattered ~we chatted in turn ~not so craven~...