If you’ve traveled through the same Colorado (or most other western states) forests for decades, you’ve probably noticed they keep getting denser, overgrown, filled with snags and deadfall. Due to the environmental indoctrination I got at NOLS and elsewhere, I always thought that forests that dense were natural, that logging and otherwise managing for forest products was a sin, and that somehow convenient fires would clear things out once in a while. Boy, was I wrong.

Snowmobiles are used for ski touring and backcountry skiing in North America, but many issues come from that.

As many of you know, it’s been as dry as an overcooked pancake here in the west. But it is FINALLY storming today in Colorado. So perhaps this will be a repeat of last year, when the heavens held off…

About halfway through the lecture on “Federal Agencies and NEPA,” I really started wondering why I was there. Winter Wildlands Alliance (WWA) is a non-profit that advocates for what they call “quiet winter use,” meaning they’re anti snowmobile. Most of…

Colorado mountains have problems with public access in some cases, this is information about El Diente parking for climbing and ski touring.

Roadless Rule allows motorized trails, and the Rule is like holy water to environmental folks, what is this weirdness?