Environmental Screed of the Month – Wheelchairs in Wilderness

Winter Ruminations – ATCs and Soul Sports such as telemarking with heavy complex bindings.

While waiting for the backcountry snow to settle in the highcountry, we headed down to Grand Junction, Colorado yesterday to wheel our

Law of unintended consequences: Some years ago, environmentalists pushed for creation of small pocket wilderness areas in the Utah Wasatch mountains. Such legal wilderness is frequently too far from road access for much human-powered winter recreation such as backcountry skiing.…

Where does it end? After we’ve populated every square inch of the backcountry with wolves, grizzly bears, lynx and other sexy pets, do we then start with every other species that’s ever lived there — all the while pushing humans farther and farther away because they might make it hard for the new animals to procreate?