Hiking

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Public land becomes ugly dumping ground

Every year starting at about this time, area public land starts to take a beating. With higher costs of dumping at landfills, some people invariably feel it’s OK to dump trash on federal land, said Erin Curtis, spokeswoman for Grand ...

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Tabeguache Trail going to the dogs

For more than the past decade, Linda McBride has relished walking her dogs off leash in the Tabeguache Recreation Area on public land just a few miles west of Grand Junction’s downtown. But in recent years, a pileup of dog waste at ...

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OUT: Haggerty’s Hikes May 10, 2009

6:30 a.m. Wednesday. I hustled Junior out the door on his way to school on a drop-dead gorgeous western Colorado morning. It would be a great day for a hike­ — except I have to work at 9 a.m. But there’s one excellent hike I ...

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OUT: Haggerty’s Hikes May 03, 2009

“In Tuckerland, hiking is what you do when you run out of gas. Jogging is running out of gas in the ’hood.” There are some able-bodied Grand Valley residents who completely refrain from outdoor activity — as if they ...

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OUT: Haggerty’s Hikes April 26, 2009

“I’m shufflin through the Texas sand, but my head’s in Mississippi,” blared ZZ Top on the car stereo. My head was not in Mississippi, but into a hike in the Colorado Rockies to see how high I could climb without ...

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Shaking off the shiver in warm Gateway

Spring finally has arrived in southwest Colorado. At least for this week. It’s been a torturous April for the outdoors lover. A few days, and sometimes only hours, of mild weather tease the senses only to be replaced by clouds, cold ...

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OUT: Haggerty’s Hikes April 19, 2009

In an attempt to avoid paying taxes until the last second, I talked buddy Nick into a lengthy hike along Little Dominguez Creek on April 15. Little Dominguez and its smaller brother, Big Dominguez, are in the midst of the newest wilderness ...

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OUT: Haggerty’s Hikes April 12, 2009

Liberty Cap is a 160 million-year-old remnant sand dune that is slowly succumbing to the forces of erosion. Just like me. I hiked to the Cap from the Wildwood Trailhead on the Redlands in Grand Junction, and made it in about 55 minutes the ...

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OUT: Utah Canyon Story April 08, 2009

“Where the heck are we?” Typically that’s not a question you’re happy to hear from your hiking companions. Especially when you’re thinking it yourself, and you’re the trip leader. But staring in bewildered ...

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OUT: Haggerty’s Hikes Column April 05, 2009

Located in the middle of Capitol Reef National Park in southeast Utah, Grand Wash was simply Grand! Grand Wash cuts through the 100-mile long Waterpocket Fold, an incredible monocline that is the centerpiece of Capitol Reef. My ...

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