
NEW RELEASE! Hiking Colorado's Hidden Gems
I’m happy to announce the release of my newest book HIKING COLORADO’S HIDDEN GEMS from FalconGuides. I not only like this book with its...

Satyabrata Dam: India's Greatest Mountaineer
A visit with Satyabrata Dam, India's foremost mountaineer, climber, and world traveler.

New Garden of the Gods Sign Explains the Mysteries of Climbing
A new sign at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs explains the mysteries of rock climbing to the park's millions of annual visitors.

NEW! Hiking Colorado's Hidden Gems out April 1
I locked the final cover of my newest book HIKING COLORADO'S HIDDEN GEMS with FalconGuides a month ago. The 256-page book, generously...

The Cliff Cities of the Ancient Ancestors
The ancient Ancestral Puebloan people inhabited southwest Colorado over 1,000 years ago. Learn about the old ones, their cliff cities.

NEW EDITION of 1878 BOOK! "Colorado: Bits of Travel at Home" by Helen Hunt Jackson
I’m happy to announce the release of my newest book: Colorado: Bits of Travel at Home by Helen Hunt Jackson on Kindle.

The Black Canyon: Colorado's Deepest Gorge
One of my favorite places is the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in western Colorado. It's a forbidding, elemental place of raw nature, a...

Pasqueflowers: Harbinger of Colorado Spring
With the advent of April, spring hardly seems to have settled in for the season. Wind whips out of the mountains with the warming days...

Remembering Mark Hesse: Climber and Trailbuilder
I've been thinking about my friend Mark Hesse, a long-time Colorado climber, who passed away after a freak fall and accident at the...

Rock Climbing at Acadia National Park
I spent almost four months in 1999 working on the first edition of my book Rock Climbing New England, a select guide to 20 or so areas...