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Mind-Boggling Nature!
The Athabasca Glacier, Alberta, Canada Sometimes the things that fascinate us most in nature aren’t the things we can see, but the things we can’t. This summer my husband and I visited Banff and Jasper...
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The Upside of Dangerous Hikes
The Queen Elizabeth Range, Jasper National Park, Alberta Canada It’s a day of rain and drizzle, and we’re hiking in Jasper National Park on a trail that flanks the Queen Elizabeth Range. It’s July, so...
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I Promise You Won’t Suffer Reading This Wonderful Book
I met Gail Storey online back in 2010 when I started blogging on this website. She found it somehow, and once in a while would comment on my blogs. She, too, was a contemplative hiker of sorts,...
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One Simple Reason to Meditate
The other day I was at a friend’s house for a little gathering and the subject of meditation came up. The women at this gathering discussed the many ways meditation had helped them, or what they...
View ArticleScott Jurek and the Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers Controversy
Recently, ultra runner Scott Jurek completed the Appalachian Trail thru hike in record time – 45 days. This spawned a controversy at the terminus, Baxter State Park, where Jurek was fined for various...
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Gratitude and Presence In Times of Sadness
My mother is at the end stage of her terminal illness. After being diagnosed with stage 4 gastric cancer almost two years ago, the chemo treatments stopped working and the cancer has spread all...
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Farewell, Front Range
View from the top of the Royal Arch trail, looking toward Boulder and the Flatirons After many years of planning, saving and sacrificing, my husband Dave and I are finally making a big move to Ridgway,...
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The View from Here
Precipice Peak in the San Juan Mountains The first time I saw the outline of Precipice Peak was maybe 7 years ago, on our way to visit Ouray and Ridgway again to look at parcels of land. It was among a...
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Life Lessons at Ice Lake
What is your life trying to teach you about yourself? Go on a hike and you’ll find out! Five years ago to the day, I hiked Ice Lake Basin near Silverton, CO with my husband and a friend. At the time I...
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A Meditation on Oneness
Ridgway State Park When spiritually-minded people say, “We are all One,” what do they mean? What is this idea of “oneness” anyway? I was contemplating this and decided that to me, oneness is more than...
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