Author: Susan Davies Special to The Gazette
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Trail Talk: North Slope of Pikes Peak holds promise 365 days a year
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Killing two birds with one stone.” A rather violent, mid-17th century phrase some of us used as children. As someone who now feeds and watches birds, I much prefer “Feed two birds with one scone.”…
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Trail Talk: Pikes Peak region needs a refresher course on good manners
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Like so many of you, I enjoy hearing of yet another “first” heaped on the Pikes Peak region’s collective shoulders. Over the years, the area has been celebrated for “best place to live,” “top location for millennials,” “best place for dog walking” and dozens more.…
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Trail Talk: Consider being a Friend to Colorado Springs area trails, parks and open spaces
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Over the years, I’ve shared stories about many of the region’s amazing Friends groups. These volunteers help maintain parks, trails and open spaces in and around Colorado Springs. They cheerfully repair and close trails, remove invasive weeds, pick up trash (including dog waste) and paint…
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Trail Talk: 2020 a reminder of the beauty and fragility of nature
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ta-ta 2020. You brought us fear, chaos, economic hardship, canceled vacations, weddings, funerals and plenty of grief. You also taught us a few things. We were forced to look at our lives, narrow our focus to what and who was truly important. Many of us…
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Trail Talk: Sharing a path and a smile
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A friend visiting from Chicago remarked on how friendly people are on our trails. When he hikes near his home, people ”greet” each other with a barely perceptible nod. They are reluctant to interrupt the oh-so-rare solitude. Out here, nearly everyone he encountered either smiled…
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Trail talk: Get Barr Trail help, too
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save New and shiny almost always trump old and familiar. New trails constructed over the past couple of years in Ute Valley Park and Red Rock Canyon Open Space are exciting additions offering variety and new…
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Trail Talk: Updates on trees, trails in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Remember Paul Harvey’s popular “The Rest of the Story” radio program? Fact is, there are times when we hear the start of a story, get whiffs of possible solutions and then the flow of information…
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Trail talk: Give the gift of time to Colorado Springs projects in 2016
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save During the next two days, more presents will be wrapped and unwrapped than at any other time of the year. In this busy holiday season, take time to give yourself a simple gift – a…
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Trail talk: Venture outside in Colorado Springs for truth on trails
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When someone talks smack about a friend or sibling, I don’t take it quietly. And I feel the same way about the trail system in the Pikes Peak region. Let’s start with El Paso County’s…
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Trail Talk: Effort to close Colorado Springs trail gap finally pays off
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Remember “The Tortoise and the Hare?” It’s one of Aesop’s Fables with a simple moral lesson: slow and steady wins the race. Slow and steady is a requirement when a trail project involves a railroad.…