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  • Essays

    Just another giddyup

    The New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association’s Zia Rodeo brings out all kinds of cowboys and cowgirls

  • Writers on the Range

    A little flash flooding can be a wonderful thing

    The writer recounts the joys of minor flash flooding at Arches and notes that rains once again flooded a road inside the park

  • Essays

    What we love will save us

    We are all, too much of the time, captives of the wreck and the mistake. Can’t take our eyes off it, can’t stop thinking about it, can’t stop picking that scab. We slide into our merely negative identity — defined by what we refuse...

  • Book Reviews

    Dry-hiking in a desert awash with history

    A 61-year-old hiker and two middle-aged friends take an epic hike through Arizona in David Roberts’ new book, Sandstone Spine

  • West Watch

    Mother Nature rides an ATV

    Factory Butte closed to ORVs

  • West Watch

    Will your favorite Forest Service campsite be closed down next summer?

    Forest Service may close campgrounds

  • Writers on the Range

    Leave only footprints, and turn the darn phone off

    Cell phones have their uses, but they do not belong in the wilderness

  • News

    Radio: Spice for the ears

    Hearing Voices, a collective of independent radio producers, is working to add spice to public broadcasting

  • Writers on the Range

    The time I was struck by lightning

    The writer climbs a mountain in Colorado and meets a lightning bolt head on

  • Writers on the Range

    Leave only footprints, and turn the darn phone off

    The writer has a message for hikers in the backcountry: Turn your darned cell phone off!

  • Editor's Note

    Leave the wheels out of wilderness

    As enjoyable as mountain biking is, bikes simply don’t belong in the wilderness, partly because the faster you travel through a place, the smaller – and tamer – that place begins to seem.

  • Feature

    Going Big

    Mountain bikers are finally winning respect, along with increased access to trails, but a growing breed of gonzo riders with heavy, fast, high-tech bikes -- and a thirst for riding in wilderness – could threaten all that.

  • Writers on the Range

    How to be alone with a lot of other people

    The writer sees a nature-bagger trend spreading through the West

  • Writers on the Range

    Will I ever become a local?

    The writer hopes to become a hiking, biking, skiing local

  • Related Stories

    Have golf's glory days gone by?

    Golf – the game that brought grass to the desert – appears to have hit a rough patch in the West

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