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On the morning of Dec. 18, massive simultaneous explosions leveled three huge 775-foot-tall smokestacks at Page, Arizona. It was the end of an era for the Navajo Generating Station and a...
DATE: Jan. 9, 2021 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
When we think of Christmas Eve, we think of glowing fires, comfortable couches, a glass of eggnog, families sheltered inside safe and warm. For four Mormon scouts in southeast Utah during that cold...
DATE: Dec. 12, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Now, don’t get me wrong. I like bears, but at a distance. Say, as a brown dot in my binoculars. Or in children’s books or as film stars in funny, animated movies, but not in camp. Bears belong in...
DATE: Nov. 14, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Though elk numbers are alarmingly low in the San Juan Mountains, I am an elk hunter who welcomes the return of wolves to Colorado. Why would I want to compete for elk meat with another top-tier...
DATE: Oct. 10, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
When I learned that my friend Peter Pino had passed on from complications of coronavirus I was devastated. I took a long walk at twilight remembering Peter’s quiet way of speaking and his...
DATE: Sept. 12, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Most everyone has been to the Four Corners Monument with its outdoor concrete patio and granite-and-bronze circle. Tourists sprawl in contorted positions to get both hands and both feet in each of...
DATE: Aug. 8, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
In the 1890s, cowboy archaeologists dug caves in remote sections of Utah’s Bears Ears. They created Basketmaker and Ancestral Puebloan artifact collections that have been hidden away for over a...
DATE: July 12, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Because of the coronavirus, we are now asked to wear masks while working and shopping downtown. Westerners used to wear masks a century ago, so the fashion has come back around. Butch Cassidy and...
DATE: June 13, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
How do you write a travel column when you cannot travel? How do you write with historical perspective when you are in the middle of an historical moment? Now more than ever, we need history and...
DATE: May 9, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Author’s note: Even with a viral pandemic and a downturn in the economy, it is important to plan for the future. Fort Lewis College is doing just that. If Durangoans can’t spend time outdoors right...
DATE: April 11, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
The American West has always had extraordinary women, but few of them have stopped to pick the flowers. For Women’s History Month, it is important to remember Alice Eastwood. This Canadian-born,...
DATE: March 14, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
Whenever I hike in Bears Ears National Monument, I think about how it almost became an Native American reservation. Over a century ago, Durango businessmen actively campaigned to remove the...
DATE: Feb. 8, 2020 | COLUMN: Gulliford's Travels
