Author: By Daliah Singer Special to The Gazette
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It’s farmers market season. Here’s a look at the Colorado crops that await.
Spring showers bring May flowers — and, more importantly, farmers market season. Though Colorado is known mostly for its Rocky Ford cantaloupe, Olathe sweet corn and Palisade peaches, regional farmers grow so much more. Here, a guide to some of the other produce you’ll encounter at the market this summer — plus, two recipes to…
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Squeezing through southern Utah’s slot canyons is an ideal fall adventure
ESCALANTE, Utah • There’s not a single cloud in the sky. I’m certain of this because my eyes are locked upward as I breathe in all of the expansiveness above while attempting to squeeze through a 10-inch sliver of red ochre–hued rock. For the past two hours, I’ve been hiking along a loop of three…
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3 challenging summer hikes in Colorado to start planning now
Longs Peak via the Keyhole Route: The only fourteener in Rocky Mountain National Park, Longs Peak (14,259 feet) requires some preparation — and plenty of nerve. Not only do you have to start hiking the 15-mile (round-trip) route, which rises some 5,000 feet in elevation, around 3 a.m., but it requires Class 3 rock scrambling.…
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Tackling bucket list hike between Aspen and Crested Butte more of a challenge than expected
My limp started just after mile nine. For five hours, I’d carried a 15-pound pack up 3,000 vertical feet of dirt and rock paths, and my right knee was throbbing. Traversing from Aspen to Crested Butte via the 11-mile West Maroon Pass had been on my bucket list for years, but I was beginning to…