Trash is a window to our world. It can tell you way more than a solicited survey or government census. Read UtahOutsider’s Trail Trash post. Our neighborhood regularly picks up trash along Highway 160, an officially designated scenic highway and part of “America’s Most Beautiful […]
Read moreCategory Archives: Exploring Colorado
It Fills. It Spills!
Like sands into an hourglass, the San Juan Mountains snow pack has been flowing into the Dolores River and filling the McPhee Reservoir in southwestern Colorado. For weeks, the boating community has been watching the granular increases (posted online by the Dolores Water Conservancy District) […]
Read moreIntroducing ColoradoOutsider Women
I’ve lived in a lot of places, yet nowhere have I been more impressed and challenged by fellow females than here in southwestern Colorado. This is not to say that women in Maine, Iowa, Utah, and elsewhere are not impressive. But when it comes to […]
Read moreFog 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 […]
Read moreWarming Tips for the Outdoors Inclined
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 […]
Read moreWelcome 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 […]
Read moreA Day in the New Life
Wallace Stegner famously said: the West faces you like a dare… I think a lot of Easterners feel that to live out this way is to go after that dare, to live adventurously, to embrace and appreciate the wilderness expanse as well as their adopted […]
Read more