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A sorta history of modern ultralight backpacking

Posted onJune 6, 2019May 3, 2023AuthorPaul Mags25 Comments

Lightweight or even “ultra-lightweight” backpacking is nothing new of course. But when did the term as we now know it come about? Read More …

CategoriesGear, MusingsTagsfavorite, history, ultralight

Review: Finders Keepers by Craig Childs

Posted onDecember 28, 2017May 19, 2022AuthorPaul Mags1 Comment

A timely look at a book about archeological preservation…or plundering. Read More …

CategoriesBooks and MediaTagsAncestral Pueblo, Ancient Sonorans, books, history

Review: Where the Water Goes

Posted onSeptember 5, 2017January 19, 2021AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

Where The Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River by David Owen is a book that is a bit of Cadillac Desert crossed with Ian Frazier’s Great Plains. Read More …

CategoriesBooks and MediaTagsbooks, climate, history, water rights

On The Trail: A History of American Hiking

Posted onMay 10, 2017May 7, 2019AuthorPaul Mags3 Comments

A review of On The Trail: A History of American Hiking by Silas Chamberlin. Read More …

CategoriesBooks and MediaTagsbooks, hiking, history

Artifacts of our civilization: Random thoughts

Posted onDecember 14, 2016July 13, 2017AuthorPaul Mags8 Comments

Some miscellaneous thoughts on what we seem to value in our culture. Read More …

CategoriesMusingsTagsculture, garbage, history, silly

The Revenant, fur trade and Colorado history

Posted onFebruary 5, 2016November 17, 2023AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

If you enjoyed the movie The Revenant, and live in Colorado, much of the fur trade history took place very close to where we live. Read More …

CategoriesMusingsTagsColorado, colorado-tip, favorite, fur trade, history, The Revenant

James A. Michener’s “Centennial”

Posted onMay 22, 2015November 17, 2023AuthorPaul Mags2 Comments

An overview of the historical fiction classic that takes places in the northeast of Colorado. Read More …

CategoriesBooks and MediaTagsbooks, Colorado, colorado-tip, High Plains, history, Michener

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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.
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