The Crestone Eagle, July 2005: There’s a world of bears out there by Keno I’ve written several articles about bears for the Eagle over the last couple of years, but all of those were about the problems bears cause us humans here...
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As you approach Crestone on T Road you may notice that North Crestone Creek, which runs into the Wildlife Refuge, is dry; and you may also notice that most of the many cottonwood trees that follow its course are dead or dying. As the raven flies across the North Crestone Creek watershed, from the peaks surrounding Ground Hog Basin and the Venable Cirque which drain into the North Fork, across the two great basins that drain off the sides of Comanche and Fluted peaks into the Middle Fork, to the peaks surrounding North Crestone Lake and North Crestone Creek, is a distance of five miles. Y
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The Crestone Eagle, September 2002: Living with the Earth . . .because it is beautiful article and...
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Permaculture at White Eagle Village The Crestone Eagle, November 2002: by Roni S. Chernin The...
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by Mary Lowers “I’ve been working on the railroad all the live-long day, “I’ve been working on the...
Read Moreby Keno Living here on the edge of both the Sangre De Cristo Mountains and the San Luis Valley, we sometimes get to see different weather phenomena that most areas of the world rarely witness. I’ve been asked about two...
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But a 76-mile section from Wolf Creek to Cumbres Pass? “No,” says my friend Katey, a seasoned mountain climber and wilderness guide. “At your age, that isn’t realistic. Take a small section,” she says. Another friend suggests which section. I will drive the 27 miles on Forest Road 250 off the road to Cumbres Pass, park beyond the Platoro Reservoir at the Three Forks Trailhead, head out with my pack up a long valley to the three forks, cross the converged North, Middle Forks of the Conejos River and the creek that runs alongside the Rito Azul Trail, follow the Rito Azul a mile or so where I’ll camp below tree line the first night, then hike to Blue Lake for the second night and on the third day head out for the six miles of the sublime and potentially terrifying CDT. The last section drops me down again into the Middle Fork cirque and another six miles out to the car. In all, about seventeen-and-a-half miles.
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by Matie Belle Lakish Is hemp an economically viable crop for the San Luis Valley that can...
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by Mary Lowers You take away the man And you take away the ditch Take away the ditch And you take...
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Story and photos by Thomas Cleary I have been walking all day across the top of the snow, this...
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by Mary Lowers As we approach mid-winter the ancient instinct to encourage light in the world...
Read MoreUSFS releases Draft Forest Plan. Alternative D strongly supported in Saguache County by...
Read Moreby Mary Lowers In late August I took a trip though the Liberty Gate at the southeast end of the...
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by Emmy Savage The following account is part of a series about walking in the Sangre de Cristo...
Read Moreby Mary Lowers I am lucky. For example, on an overcast Tuesday in July I was cruisin’ north, windows cracked and dog in the back seat, to tour the Orient Land Trust’s Everson Ranch. This one-hundred-and-fifty-year-old heritage...
Read MoreThe Ziggurat, local Crestone landmark, was commissioned by Najeed Halaby, father of Queen...
Read Moreby Mary Lowers This story is a little-known but dramatic tale of regional history which kicked off...
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By Jason Anderson: Saguache Cty. Commiss’r Note: All accounts below should be considered...
Read Moreby Stacia Burton What is possible when we come together as a movement, an incubating force...
Read Moreby Mary Lowers During the Pleistocene Era, two million to ten thousand years ago, several...
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