Photo Journal & Trip Reports

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Latest Photo Stream — Latest Photo Stream

Nowadays | Mostly Colorado

This "Photo Stream" is a repository of miscellaneous latest photos mostly from around where I live in Ridgway at the foot of the San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado.

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Winter Heat in the Needles — Winter Heat in the Needles

March 2026 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah

The beginning of March brought the first of an unrelenting series of unseasonable heatwaves this month to the southwest. With less than stellar skiing conditions in the mountains this season (Colorado's lowest winter of snowfall on record), we instead took advantage of the unseasonable heat to do a two-night backpack trip in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park in southern Utah...

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Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 4): Larch Laps — Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 4): Larch Laps

January 2026 | Piemonte, Italy & Hautes-Alpes, France

Our next stage of chasing powder in the Alps in January was in the western Piemonte of Italy and the Haute-Alps of France just over the border, a region full of extensive larch forests. We scored some surprise post-snowstorm powder at Bardonecchia and Sestriere in Italy, toured the expansive terrain of Montgenèvre in France on a beautiful blue sky day, then caught another massive snowstorm at Serra Chevalier in France when there was literally too much snow to ride!

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Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 3): Trees of Limone Piemonte — Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 3): Trees of Limone Piemonte

January 2026 | Limone Piemonte, Italy

After chasing powder from Austria to Switzerland, there was a now a big Retour d'Est storm forecasted to hit the far southern Alps in the Piemonte region of western Italy. This was great news, particularly because the mountains there already had a solid snowpack from an earlier Retour d'Est in December...

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Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 2): Swiss Snow Dreams — Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 2): Swiss Snow Dreams

January 2026 | Valais, Switzerland

With a weather forecast promising a big snowstorm in the western Alps, we drove to Valais in western Switzerland to best position ourselves for the incoming powder. We arrived along with the storm and spent the next week skiing & snowboarding at various ski areas up and down the valley. Here's a gallery of photos from the week, along with our experiences there.

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Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 1): Low Tide in Austria — Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 1): Low Tide in Austria

January 2026 | Fieberbrunn, Austria

After visiting Claudia's family over Christmas in Germany, we took the train down to Munich and picked up a rental car for the next phase of our winter Euro trip: a month of skiing and snowboarding in the Alps! As January rolled around, though, my excitement was tamped down a bit by the fact that the Alps were experiencing a miserably low snow year so far. Powder prospects looked grim, with much of the Alps barely having any snowpack at all...

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Frohe Weihnachten aus Dresden! — Frohe Weihnachten aus Dresden!

December 24, 2025 | Dresden, Germany

Merry Christmas from Dresden, Germany! 🎄 We are here for the holidays visiting Claudia's family and enjoying the fantastic Christmas markets in the old town, including lots of glühwein (mulled wine), bratwurst, and all sorts of delicious fried sweets...

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Between the Canyonlands — Between the Canyonlands

November 2025 | Southern Utah

After nearly 8 weeks of being mostly housebound with my busted toe, we finally got out into the great outdoors this last week for a couple nights of truck camping in the no-man's land between the north and south districts of Canyonlands National Park in southern Utah...

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Smoked out of the Winds — Smoked out of the Winds

September 2025 | Wind River Range, Wyoming

In early September we set out on a planned 6-day backpack trek in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. After three days of camping amongst rugged granite peaks and lovely alpine lakes, we had to retreat unexpectedly when the mountains became inundated with wildfire smoke from the Dollar Lake Fire on the northwest end of the range. Here are some photos and stories from this unique and surreal trek!

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Trekkin the Écrins — Trekkin the Écrins

July 2025 | Écrins National Park, France

In early July we embarked on a two-week trek around the Parc National des Écrins (Écrins National Park) in the French Alps. Our route roughly followed the GR54 trek, but we did a lot of extra sidetrips and detours. Along the way we stayed in alpine huts as well as some quaint villages.

This was the longest and most ambitious hut-trekking route that we've yet done in the Alps, and I have a lot of photos to share from our travels in these magnificent mountains!

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Postcards from Dresden — Postcards from Dresden

June 2025 | Dresden, Germany

In mid-June Claudia and I flew to Germany to spend two and half weeks visiting her family and friends. We spent most of the time in her hometown of Dresden, the capitol of Saxony in eastern Germany...

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Summer Above Moab — Summer Above Moab

June 2025 | La Sal Mountains, Utah

Last weekend I drove out towards Moab, Utah again for the fourth time this year. This time, though, instead of a canyon trip, I ventured up into La Sal Mountains which rise over 8,000 vertical feet above Moab like an alpine island towering over the surrounding desert and canyons...

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A Weekend in the Canyonlands — A Weekend in the Canyonlands

May 2025 | Canyonlands, Utah

Over Memorial Day weekend, Claudia and I headed out to Utah for three days of car camping and day hiking in and around the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. Along the way we enjoyed camping at some awesome remote campsites along mesa rims with broad vistas overlooking the canyonlands...

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Trans Catalina Trail Again — Trans Catalina Trail Again

April 2025 | Catalina Island, California

12 years ago, Claudia and I hiked the Trans Catalina Trail across Catalina Island, off the coast of southern California. With fond memories of that trip, we returned to do it again this spring! This time we were joined by my cousin Kelly and her friends Ginny and Larry, so we had a fun little "tramily" to keep us company during the 38-mile, 5-day backpack trip...

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Back to the Canyonlands! — Back to the Canyonlands!

February 2025 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah

Last week's backpacking trip near Moab whetted my appetite for more of this kind of stuff, so on Monday I drove out to Utah again for another quick trip - this time a solo one-nighter to a seldom-visited corner of Island in the Sky in Canyonlands National Park...

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Colorful Moab — Colorful Moab

February 2025 | Moab, Utah

With an unseasonably warm weather forecast at the beginning of February, we headed out to the Utah desert for three days of backpacking and camping on slickrock in a wonderful canyon and sandstone landscape near Moab. We were treated to some wonderful sunsets and sunrises, making for a collection of very colorful photos!

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January in the French Alps — January in the French Alps

January 2025 | France

On New Years Eve, my wife Claudia and I flew to France to spend the month of January skiing/snowboarding in the French Alps! We rented a car in Geneva, drove to Chamonix, then slowly worked our way south over the next three weeks, skiing at lots of different ski areas both big and small mainly in the Haute-Savoie and Savoie regions...

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Escalante Escapades — Escalante Escapades

October 2024 | Escalante, Utah

In mid-October Claudia and I headed out to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah for a week of car camping and hiking. We've had our fair share of mountain time this summer and autumn in Colorado and were excited to hang out in the desert for a change, especially in Escalante which is one of our favorite areas of southern Utah!

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Aurora over the Sneffels Range — Aurora over the Sneffels Range

October 2024 | San Juan Mountains, Colorado

Leading up to October 10, 2024 a severe geomagnetic storm was forecasted after a strong solar flare erupted from the sun the previous day. The news was full of reports forecasting a KP8-level aurora that should be visible even as far south as the southern United States! With such an optimistic aurora forecast and good weather I decided spontaneously to hike and camp up high in the San Juan Mountains for a chance to view this incredibly rare event.

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Indian Summer in the San Juans — Indian Summer in the San Juans

October 10, 2024 | San Juan Mountains, Colorado

The aspen colors have been brilliant again this autumn season here in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado. But so have the skies! For most of late September and early October the weather has been warm and dry, with relentless blue skies and no snow on the peaks...

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Sleepless with Longs Peak — Sleepless with Longs Peak

September 2024 | Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

In mid-September after visiting friends and running errands in Denver and Fort Collins, Claudia and I headed to Rocky Mountain National Park, where I had reserved some last minute wilderness camping permits for three nights...

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Sangres Seven Pass Loop — Sangres Seven Pass Loop

September 2024 | Sangre de Cristos, Colorado

Looking at a topographic map of Colorado, the Sangre de Cristo Range in southern Colorado is the easiest mountain range to recognize - a straight and solitary line of mountains stretching down the center of the southern portion of the state...

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Ragged Elks Trek — Ragged Elks Trek

September 2024 | Elk Mountains, Colorado

At the end of August and beginning of September, Claudia and I joined our friends Ann and Holly for an ambitious 5-day trek through the Elk Mountains, Ruby Range, and Ragged Mountains - a 50 mile traverse through some of the most beautiful mountain landscapes in Colorado, between the towns of Aspen, Crested Butte, Marble, and Paonia...

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3 Days In the Grenadiers — 3 Days In the Grenadiers

August 2024 | San Juan Mountains, Colorado

With a brief window of decent weather between monsoon storms, last week I ventured back into the Weminuche Wilderness for a quick but strenuous solo 3-day backpack trip through the rugged Grenadier Range via a series of high passes and lots of off-trail rock hopping...

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Threading the Needles — Threading the Needles

July 2024 | San Juan Mountains, Colorado

At the end of July I ventured out for a 6-day solo backpack trek through the Needle Mountains, a remote and rugged sub-range of the greater San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado. This was the seventh trek I've done in this specific range (not counting other nearby trips within the Weminuche Wilderness), though it has actually been six years since my last visit...

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Wandering in Wildflowers — Wandering in Wildflowers

July 2024 | San Juan Mountains, Colorado

This week my wife and I ventured into the mountains near Silverton, Colorado for a wonderful 3-day trek through the wildflowers! We shuttled cars and did a one-way trailhead to trailhead walk - another variation of a trek that we've done two previous variations of, and we also included two exploratory side hikes each evening...

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Down in the Narrows — Down in the Narrows

May 16, 2024 | Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado

The Black Canyon of the Gunnison is easily one of the most awe inspiring sights in Colorado. Carrying snowmelt down from a broad watershed of the West Elk, Elk, Sawatch, and San Juan Mountains, the Gunnison River roars through 2,000 sheer vertical feet of 1...

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Knowles/Mee Canyons Loop — Knowles/Mee Canyons Loop

April 23, 2024 | Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness, Colorado

Hungry for a desert adventure, in mid-April I headed to the canyons west of Grand Junction in the Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness, an area I'd never visited before, for a 36-mile loop trek going down Knowles Canyon, along the Colorado River, then up Mee Canyon. This was a fantastic but strenuous trek through seriously awesome canyon country.

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Over the Rockies — Over the Rockies

April 3, 2024 | Colorado

Whenever we fly from Denver to Montrose (or vice versa) I always try to reserve a window seat on the north side of the plane since you get wonderful views looking right down at the Elk Mountains, Gore Range, and Front Range. The timing was great with this flight as we flew over the mountains right as the sun was setting! So of course I was snapping away with glee. It's always fun to see so many recognizable peaks and valleys from an aerial perspective.

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Winter in Tyrol: In Black & White — Winter in Tyrol: In Black & White

January - March 2024 | Tyrol, Austria

A collection of black and white photos from the rugged mountains of Tyrol, Austria in the winter months of 2024. Most of these photos are from the Zillertal, though there are several from East Tyrol as well as Serfaus...

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