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GLENWOOD SPRINGS We live with the heat, the dust, the smoke. They live with the fire. We complain, but they do the work as volunteers for local fire departments and as red card carrying federal...
DATE: July 21, 2012 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
GRAND JUNCTION Ill confess that Im an environmentalist, an earth muffin. So what was I doing having drinks and dinner at the DoubleTree Hotel in Grand Junction with retired executives from...
DATE: June 15, 2012 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
NATURAL BRIDGES, Utah — In the 21st century Americans have lost silence, solitude and darkness, but now the National Park Service has new initiatives to preserve and appreciate our dark skies,...
DATE: May 19, 2012 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
ABIQUIU, N.M. — Made famous by the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, the village of Abiquiu hasn't changed much in the last few centuries.Thousands of visitors come each year to tour her home with its...
DATE: April 21, 2012 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
MONTICELLO, Utah — The West has always been full of dreamers and schemers, but rarely have true visionaries sought educational goals. Westerners sought lost gold and silver mines, large ranches...
DATE: March 17, 2012 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
LA PLATA CANYON — The early winter of 1912 wasn’t a winter like this one. It was a typical San Juan winter with freezing temperatures, packed ice, deep snowdrifts and nightly cold. Up Junction...
DATE: Feb. 18, 2012 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
Myths, legends surround Colorado hotel
DATE: Jan. 21, 2012 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
It began as a simple thing. Fort Lewis College donor and part-time Durango resident Nina Heald Webber started to collect postcards. Now two decades and 4,000 Southwest Colorado postcards later, we...
DATE: Dec. 17, 2011 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS Ive hiked Tomahawk Basin in the La Platas, and on the shoulders of Diorite Peak at 12,761 feet rest a few shards of twisted aluminum from a 1960s military plane crash. Not...
DATE: Nov. 19, 2011 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
SAN JUAN COUNTY, Utah It takes a long time to find a mastodon, especially if its been buried beneath tamarisk, oak brush and Russian olive bushes.Id heard rumors about a mastodon along the San...
DATE: Oct. 15, 2011 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
HERMOSA PARK Log cabins built by cowboys represent an American icon and a part of Western heritage. There arent many cow-camp cabins left, but an excellent example of one just got stabilized...
DATE: Sept. 17, 2011 | COLUMN: Gulliford's travels
On Sunday, a diverse group of birders arrived at Summit Lake Reservoir for a tour led by a teenager who knows to make the birds come calling. On Saturday, the Butler Corner Nature Center hosted a more laid-back tour as families gathered for a walk and a child-friendly introduction to birdwatching.
