A quiet Colorado mountain lake near Denver offers peaceful paddling, shoreline fishing, and uncrowded campsites surrounded by ...
The Strawberry Mountain Wilderness is a place that, for many Oregonians, sits just beyond reach. Many have heard of it, some dream of traveling there, yet surprisingly, few make the five-hour trip ...
The Strawberry Mountain Wilderness is a place that, for many Oregonians, sits just beyond reach. Many have heard of it, some dream of traveling there, yet surprisingly, few make the five-hour trip ...
For over a decade now, I’ve avoided visiting and writing about Marion Lake, perhaps the most popular alpine pool in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness. The reason was simple — everybody and their mom ...
GREENHORN MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS • Five minutes into the hike, I knew I shouldn’t have come. Not here. Not now. In a few more weeks, the wooded slopes of the behemoth known as Greenhorn Mountain will be ...
A lightning bolt lit the night. It seared the air at 50,000 degrees and then harpooned a Douglas fir with a few billion watts. As thunder boomed and shook across the mountain rim, the tree ignited. At ...
Editor's Note: This article on the Black Fork Mountain Wilderness is the fifth in a series commemorating the 40th anniversary of the signing of federal legislation to create nine new federal ...