Category: Environment
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Winter Fun – Colorado Style
Colorado is shockingly mild in the winter months. Sure we have days or weeks of bitter cold or 6 feet of snow every year or two, but for the most of the winter, it’s not bad. This means that we get spoiled with having great days to play outside in the winter. While we can’t…
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Emerald Lake – RMNP
Another Adventure of the Week for your Saturday reading and another one in the endless nature and beauty of Rocky Mountain National Park! I went with a co-worker and my step-daughter to hike the trail that is a total of around 3 miles in and back again. This is a far more busy trail than…
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Travel Freedom with Fitness
When I started college in 2011 I did not fully ascertain that it would mean as many sedentary hours as it did. My Bachelor’s is in Journalism and a second degree in History, as you can imagine this means being sedentary, reading, typing, editing. Sedentary. Add a Master’s which was another year of sitting on…
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Ditching Disposables When Traveling
If you have been paying attention to much news, you know our plastic use is becoming a serious problem. Not only is it already a pollutant that doesn’t break down, but its becoming increasingly hard to recycle. For 20 years China has been taking plastics from the United States, and other counties like New Zealand,…
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Wild Animal Sanctuary-Adventure of the week
Maybe you are seeing a theme, why yes I do love animals! This particular week involves Lions and Tigers and Bears…. oh my! And wolves and lynx and bobcat and…. you get the idea. Last weekend I took my Girl Scout troop to the Wild Animal sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado. Keenesburg is about…
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Land of Death and Destruction- Climate Anxiety
Terrible images flash into my mind of Mad Max, The Road, and the Book of Eli; desert landscapes, little hope, and near starvation. It’s an abysmal and depressing idea, that may be closer to reality than science-fiction.