Somehow my brain jogged from a 6:14 am text from my stepsister about a wildfire near Durango to the Facebook group Vintage Backpacking through the 1970s and thinking about out my own gear from the 1960s. Before the fancy Sierra Designs aluminum frame pack, I had a wooden packboard and canvas packbag from the great …
Looking out the windows this windy morning, second cup of coffee on the stump beside me, thinking of friends and groceries and coronavirus. I remembered that March 18 was the date I stocked up for the COVID-19 quarantine, Cowboy food, too. I’ll need to make another trip soon. I was a thorough shopper on the …
What surely will go down in New Mexico as some kind of record-breaking string of storms persisted at dreamranch, an easy crane flight from the juncture of the Jemez and the Rio Grande, early today. I thought I could sleep through the rolling thunder and lightning flashes at 3 a.m., then the downpour, but my …
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