Big Jackson Mountain, in the Tumbledown-Jackson Range and the Tumbledown Public Lands Unit, is the highest of the Weld-area hiking peaks that ring Webb Lake – but is lightly visited by hiking…
Early morning sun has just topped Saddleback and the high peaks east of Rangeley, as I launch my kayak onto the northern reach of Rangeley Lake known as Hunter Cove. Paddling from…
It was on a cool September day nearly 40 years ago when I summited Mt. Blue for the first time, on a hike with my wife and our children. Mt. Blue is…
The hour is early, shortly after 6:00 a.m., when my chocolate Labrador retriever, “Moose”, and I step to the marshy shore of Saddleback Lake in Northern Franklin County. The low morning sun…
Month of May! Our high peaks give up the last of the snow, bit by bit, day by day, sending runoff down dozens of stream and river channels. Newly high waters careen…
In a Time of Mud and Corona Virus Here we are, well into mud season – and reconfiguring how to go about family life, and otherwise go through our days in meaningful…
One of my favorite point-to-point ski treks is over a 15-mile route from the north side of Saddleback Range to Reed’s Mill in Madrid. Two trail developments, new in the past decade,…
In a land of striking high peak profiles, the Bigelow Range, rises in particularly dramatic fashion. Six named peaks top an 18-mile, east-west running ridge. Two of them, only 0.7 mile apart,…
Iconic Mt. Blue, a poplar Franklin County summer hiking destination, beckons to the winter hiker as well. Its stand-alone location in central Franklin County provides striking views in all directions – either…