Article and Photographs by William Horton
Your Ouray-Area Fall-Color Cheat Sheet is ready for download here. It is in PDF format and will print out nicely so that you can take it along with you on your leaf-color tours. For each location, you will find specific directions and notes, plus CAUTIONS you should keep in mind on your journeys, such as road and trail conditions, where to park, and navigation landmarks.
by Kenita Gibbins
We as women can prevail in the big, wide, wonderful world by ourselves. We just have to follow a few rules. Continue reading Joys and Hazards of Traveling Alone
RMOWP 2014 Contest Winner Best of Show, Writing (Reprinted with permission from The Chaffee County Times, 12/19/13 edition.)
A time for memories – and magic moments for making more. This year will mark 75 years of acquiring Christmas memories, so presented the opportunity to write an article about the most memorable of those involving the outdoors. The task wasn’t too difficult. I have a deep storage bin. Continue reading “The Christmas Mink” by Bob Good
Article by Maryann Gaug
My house and camper van are buried in snow and although the sun is shining brightly, it’s below zero out there. Time to think about our July 23-27 conference in glorious Glacier National Park. Hmmm… glaciers sound cold, so think warm July days …
Part of the fun of traveling is the anticipation. Here are some ideas to get your travel, photography, and writing juices going. Continue reading Time to Get Psyched for Glacier National Park!
Article by Don Laine, photo courtesy of BLM
Those who attended the 2012 RMOWP conference in Taos, New Mexico will remember the picnic along the Rio Grande and the hike with Bureau of Land Management ranger Randy Roch. Some conference attendees also took time out to fish the Rio Grande. That area along the river was then called the Orilla Verde Recreation Area. But that was then and this is now. Continue reading Rio Grande del Norte National Monument Celebrates First Anniversary
Book review and photo by Jack Olson
RMOWP member Mary Taylor Young’s latest book, Rocky Mountain National Park, The First 100 Years, has just been published, and I highly recommend it to our members. This book will inform, educate, and entertain any reader. I suppose I have been to the park hundreds of times, but I still found something new to me on almost every page. Continue reading Rocky Mountain National Park, The First 100 Years
By Jack Wendleton
Let me give you some information about Amtrak and howone can get to Glacier National Park by rail. Pat and I will definitely come to the RMOWP conference via Amtrak from Chicago. Maybe other members might want to travel to the conference by this mode of transportation. For us in Missouri the cost of train with sleeper and meals included will be less than the gas to drive. The train is the Empire Builder (Pat and I have taken it twice to South Washington. It’s a great train and food). Continue reading Taking the Train to Glacier
Article and photos by Jack Wendleton
In planning my 3-week journey to the RMOWP Conference and beyond, I first contacted Jack Olson. He recommended that my first destination should be the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, which is 18 miles West of Emporia, Kansas. I did not, initially, find the idea of a National Park Service area dedicated to preserving tallgrass prairies to be exciting, and I admit that I was pleasantly surprised. The park includes a well preserved three-story stone ranch house, a massive barn, ranch buildings and prairie interpretive trails. Nearby, the well-preserved town of Cottonwood Falls with its historic courthouse and buildings add to understanding life on the prairies and the Flint Hills country of Kansas in the nineteenth century.
Continue reading Travels To and Beyond This Year’s RMOWP Conference
Article and photograph by Richard Holmes
As a refinement to civilized wildlife photography, discussed in a previous newsletter, I continue with the goal of not chasing after wildlife, but allowing them to approach me. Continue reading Armchair Wildlife Photography
Article & photos by Maryann Gaug
In the last RMOWP newsletter I wrote about my experiences in the ancient world near Colorado National Monument. This article with give you some ideas of what to see in the Monument while you’re at conference in May. While I haven’t explored every nook and cranny, I have seen some great places. Several short walks take you to some spectacular views, interesting places, and flora. Continue reading Sights to see at Colorado National Monument
