spring – PMags.com https://pmags.com Practical advice and musings on the outdoors, hiking, backpacking, ski touring, and camping. Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:32:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://pmags.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-fav-ico-160x160.jpg spring – PMags.com https://pmags.com 32 32 81463906 Spring has arrived https://pmags.com/spring-has-arrived https://pmags.com/spring-has-arrived#respond Fri, 06 May 2016 02:56:38 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=11140 Spring has arrived

I saw a Pasque flower. Spring is here. Read More ...

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A few hours in the foothills with my camera? It means looking for spring wildflowers. Read More ...

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Snow in April means it is spring. Read More ...

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An ~10 mile or so hike on section two of the Colorado Trail with Cam Honan of "The Hiking Life". Read More ...

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]]> https://pmags.com/spring-time-colorado-trail-stroll/feed 0 7193 The Last Ski Tour? https://pmags.com/the-last-ski-tour https://pmags.com/the-last-ski-tour#respond Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:28:07 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=5639 The Last Ski Tour?

A lovely ski tour. Possibly the last of the season?

There comes a time when the snow is still high, but is melting rapidly.

Powder in the morning. Slushy by the afternoon.

The sun is warming. Lighter layers are worn.

It is the last ski tour of the season.

It is different every year. But you just know when it is winding down.  And last weekend, we had what could very well be the last Nordic tour of the season.

D-low, Mark and myself went to on a nice out and back up the Sourdough Trail near Beaver Res. On the trail at a fairly early time.

The views were nice. The weather superb. The conditions good.

Safe to say, we all enjoyed the day quite a bit.

By noon,  we arrived back at the car. The dirt road was muddy.

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