Species Parade, Episode Eleven

Spring in February? So it seemed. During last month, I saw two phenomena I usually witness in April or later: Canada geese flying up from the south. Magpies carrying nesting material. For weeks, we have enjoyed sunny, 50-degree days full of bird song and snow […]

Fog and a Meeting in Mancos

Attending a Bureau of Land Management meeting is a bit like driving into thick fog. It can be bewildering, even if you have a general sense of where you are and why you’re there. It helps if you have a lay of the land and […]

Rave review for Raven Narratives

Really, what’s the point? What’s the point of telling your story to someone else? To a big group of strangers, no less? Turns out there are myriad points for the storyteller, for the listeners, and, ideally, for the greater community. They were revealed at the […]

Species Parade, Week Ten

Father Winter has put the hammer down on the Species Parade. Due to heavy snow, poor visibility, and a busy work schedule, this rendition of the Species Parade is pretty darn slim. I did, however, have the thrill of seeing an ermine dash across the […]

Five stay warm tips

Car rides with the windows down Tall, ice-filled drinks Swims with your horse The pleasures of summer seem far, far away. At my place, pasture walks are slow, laborious efforts of postholing, walking in snow that goes to my thighs and fills my boots. I’d […]

Warming Tips for the Outdoors Inclined

Tempest Williams stirs it up

The Outdoor Retailer is all about the selly-selly-sell. Thousands of outdoor gear exhibitors tout their latest socks, stoves, skis, shoes, snowshoes, and shovels in the effort to wow thousands of buyers (or not). Increasingly, however, it’s also about organizing and affirming the outdoor industry’s growing […]

Tempest Williams wows OR crowd

Welcome UtahOutsider Readers!

For those of you wondering what will happen to UtahOutsider now that I’ve high-tailed it to Colorado: fear not. UtahOutsider lives on! The site will remain live and active. The new ColoradoOutsider debuts today! Suffice to say, I reserve the prerogative to maintain my outsider […]

Species Parade, Week Nine

Moving 300 miles southeast and up 1,600 feet in elevation from my previous stomping grounds means a whole new environment and a whole new parade of species to celebrate. There are still juncos and deer. In town, there are still mostly white folks. But things […]