Welcome to a new Trail Stoke series, Dog Friendly City! First destination: Dog Friendly Silverton, Colorado. I’m relatively new to the traveling with dog world so I’ve had to make several adjustments in my travel routine. I often travel alone and my daily on the road routine typically goes something like this: sunrise adventure run…
Colorado
Hiking Handies Peak & American Basin (Kangaroo’s First 14er)
For the 2nd year in a row, Kangaroo the Dog and I fled Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Day celebration for the fantastic wildflower basins of Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. Hitting peak wildflower season perfectly, I was rewarded with the most dramatic wildflower display I have ever seen. I spent the first day exploring Ice…
Colorado’s Ice Lake Basin Wildflower Display
Ice Lake Basin and neighboring Island Lake is one of the most incredible places I’ve visited in the United States. This past weekend I hiked up to the basin for the third time in three years hitting it at darned near peak wildflower season. For the second year in a row I found myself in…
2014 The Best Yet: A Year in Photos
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. ~T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” January 2013 was sandwiched on both sides with hip surgeries and crutching and crap so I entered 2014 walking albeit just a few minutes at…