Exploring Denver’s shops and restaurants, neighborhoods and people (including myself)
It was the longest walk ever, up Carnage Canyon to our worksite. At least an hour of balancing on our heels, or sometimes not. As crew leader, all I could do was ask her after the fall, “Are you all right”? I was too busy placing my own feet to watch others. We trudged past [...]
Bristlecone pines twist for strength at the top. Micro-landscapes shifting every few feet, spongy grasses to willow carr to scatterings of violet flowers, smaller than my thumbnail, the tallest of the tundra. Cairns point to nothing.
We drove from home to Windy Ridge to Windy Point, and home, to see 1,000-year-old trees. We are not [...]