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Gear pick of the year 2015 – Contigo coffee mug

Posted onNovember 10, 2015July 20, 2025AuthorPaul Mags1 Comment

My gear pick of the year: Contigo coffee mug from Costco! Read More …

CategoriesGearTagscar camping, coffee, cooking, gear pick of the year, gear review, mug

National Geographic, Bread and Circuses

Posted onNovember 9, 2015December 3, 2017AuthorPaul Mags2 Comments

Ranting with a purpose… Read More …

CategoriesBooks and Media, MusingsTagsactivism, books, NatGeo

Recreational Trails Program in trouble

Posted onNovember 5, 2015January 17, 2018AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

The Recreational Trails Program in trouble. Write your Congress critter to save it. Read More …

CategoriesMusingsTagsactivism, Recreational Trails Program

My Epic Journey of Self

Posted onNovember 4, 2015November 25, 2023AuthorPaul Mags27 Comments

A not-so-serious attempt at writing in the style that is really popular today. Expect a GoFundMe campaign soon. 😀 Read More …

CategoriesMusingsTagsbackpacking, EPIC, favorite, hiking, humor

Cotton kills?

Posted onNovember 3, 2015November 17, 2023AuthorPaul Mags6 Comments

Does cotton really kill in the backcountry? Maybe. Sometimes. It depends. Read More …

CategoriesGearTagsclothing, cotton, gear, hiking

An Outdoor Guide to Boulder, Colorado

Posted onNovember 2, 2015November 17, 2023AuthorPaul Mags2 Comments

Things to do, see and explore while in Boulder, Colorado. Read More …

CategoriesTrip PlanningTagsactivities, Boulder, Colorado, colorado-tip

where water comes together with other water

Posted onOctober 28, 2015June 14, 2017AuthorPaul Mags3 Comments

Just a favorite poem of mine by Raymond Carver. Read More …

CategoriesBooks and Media, MusingsTagsbooks, New Mexico, poetry, Raymond Carver, Rio Grande, rivers, Wild Rivers Recreation Area

The cycle of the seasons

Posted onOctober 26, 2015November 19, 2015AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

It is that time of the year: I go to the foothills. Read More …

CategoriesMusings, Other Outdoor JauntsTagsFall, hiking

Book overview: The Backbone of The World

Posted onOctober 23, 2015April 24, 2019AuthorPaul Mags3 Comments

A book that contemplates the culture, politics, history and the current clashing of these different cultures along or near the Continental Divide. Read More …

CategoriesBooks and MediaTagsbooks, continental divide

Bread Crumbs – How much information is enough?

Posted onOctober 22, 2015January 3, 2021AuthorPaul Mags6 Comments

Striking a balance between giving information about a place and making the information too detailed is interesting. Read More …

CategoriesMusingsTagsfavorite, guide books, Wilderness Ethics, Wildness

Lost Creek Wilderness Rambles

Posted onOctober 18, 2015October 19, 2015AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

An unseasonably warm off-trail jaunt to an obscure peak in the Lost Creek Wilderness. Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagsbackpacking, Colorado, Fall, Lost Creek Wilderness

Website of the week: National Weather Service – NOAA

Posted onOctober 16, 2015AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

A great website for forecasting weather in backcountry areas. Read More …

CategoriesGetting Started, Trip PlanningTagsNOAA, weather, Website of the week

Gear Review: 100 weight fleece pullover

Posted onOctober 15, 2015May 12, 2026AuthorPaul Mags15 Comments

Perhaps the most versatile piece of clothing I own: My 100 weight fleece pullover. Read More …

CategoriesGearTags100 wt, budget gear, clothing, fleece, gear review, winter

Nebraska Panhandle Rambles

Posted onOctober 14, 2015May 17, 2017AuthorPaul Mags7 Comments

Hiking and camping in the Nebraska Panhandle. Fossils, canyons, big horns, wild turkeys and fall foliage. And one of the best night skies I’ve seen. Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagscamping, fossils, High Plains, hiking, Nebraska, The Great Plains

Musings on macaroni and Sunday gravy

Posted onOctober 7, 2015November 25, 2023AuthorPaul Mags2 Comments

A rainy and drizzly fall day is good for making some slow cooked food. And ruminating on cultural identity. Read More …

CategoriesMusingsTagsfavorite, food, Italian-American, time bank

Sunset on the Land and Water Conservation Fund

Posted onOctober 1, 2015June 19, 2017AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

The Land and Water Conservation Fund has expired. The latest in an ongoing trend. But it is not too late. Read More …

CategoriesMusingsTagsactivism, Land and Water Conservation Fund, LWCF, Wildness

Email Shenanigans

Posted onOctober 1, 2015October 1, 2015AuthorPaul Mags1 Comment

Some techie issues…now resolved Read More …

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ALDHA West Gathering 2015

Posted onSeptember 28, 2015December 17, 2015AuthorPaul Mags1 Comment

A trip to the ALDHA West Gathering near the base of Mt. Hood. Read More …

CategoriesMusings, Other Outdoor JauntsTagsMt. Hood, Oregon

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A few days on the Colorado Plateau. We saw new sites, revisited old favorites, and enjoyed a solo hike while @ramblinghemlock took a class at the nearby @crow_canyon
Bearing witness in a changed, post-fire landscape. Fire and flood shape the environment; some history passes away, while other traces remain untouched. The land eventually recovers: Some of it recently, some of it long after my lifetime.
On a rare group trip, we heard rain overnight and woke to this raging torrent. After the Babylon Fire, flooding was inevitable. The water carried a lot of ash.
@ramblinghemlock and I went to a place above the desert floor, where elk bugled, and there were expansive views of Capitol Reef and the Henry Mountains.
The hot and dry summer may account for the early leaf changing and somewhat muted colors. Still, not a bad sight.
@ramblinghemlock and I did an overnight to an obscure peak with an amazing viewscape. From the summit, we could see the Abajos and La Sals (our “home” mountains), distant 13ers and 14ers along the horizon, and the red rock country over the horizon. An incredible sunset capped off the evening.

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