by admin | Jul 7, 2017 | blog
The best of books become companions, a comfort you carry and escape into during quiet moments. The late Ellen Meloy’s book, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild (Vintage Books, 2005) has been such a friend during the first days of CFI’s 2017 season. My...
by admin | Jul 3, 2017 | blog
I wake up in my brand new NEMO one person tent, stiff from the previous days of cutting new trail. It’s five in the morning and I am still trying to get used to waking up so early. I drag my chilly day clothes on, and stumble out of my tent, blinking wildly in...
by admin | Jun 30, 2017 | blog
I’ll have to admit, when brainstorming a topic for a blog post this early in the season, I was a bit stumped. Then the lightbulb turned on, and I thought, “stumped! That’s it, how relevant!” So over the last week, a few of us on the...
by admin | Jun 26, 2017 | blog
It’s an ass kicker from the get go. The unassuming aspen grove surrounding the trail head parking lot leads you to believe you might be in for a pleasant hike, but you’d be wrong. You set out with the weight of a rockbar, pack, and yesterday’s...
by admin | Jun 22, 2017 | blog
Trail season 2017 is off to a running start! Or, in my case, a slushy, slogging start through the remaining piles and fields of snow at the base and on the trail of Quandary Peak. I’m back for my third season with CFI and second on Quandary, but the beginning of...
by admin | Jun 19, 2017 | blog
This season I am excited to be moving into a new role with CFI. I will spend the summer on 18 different peaks throughout the state evaluating, assessing, and inventorying the condition of their trails. Several years back CFI’s Sustainable Trails Program was born with...
