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

JC Summars
Apr 17, 20199 min read


Canyon Crow
~ 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...

JC Summars
Apr 1, 20191 min read


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

JC Summars
Sep 30, 20181 min read


Herpetology Camp
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...

JC Summars
May 10, 20184 min read


Chasing The Dot Com Bubble
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....

JC Summars
Mar 18, 20182 min read


Escape Vector Dreaming
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...

JC Summars
Feb 20, 20185 min read


Escape From The Hard Gray Edge
~ 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...

JC Summars
Feb 5, 201817 min read


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

JC Summars
Jan 28, 20181 min read


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

JC Summars
Jan 10, 20188 min read
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