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Portrait on a wooden deck at sunset, orange alpenglow lighting the pine forest and ridgeline behind, red beanie and sunglasses, a solar panel on a folding table nearby
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A Hike to Clear Lake
Chasing the Butter · 2026
The Fishing Expedition Video
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Jed and the Splinter
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What a Time
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It Was a Dream
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// interviews
Aerial drone shot looking down at Layng standing between solar panels beside his Sprinter van, San Juan Mountains, Colorado.
LAYNG: On Nomadic Life
Nine questions on life as a nomad in the American West. June 4, 2026 · Silverton, Colorado.
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// field guides
FIELD GUIDES
Interactive guides to the places and topics on the road. The Night Sky. Red Rocks. Colorado Wildfires. More on the way.
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THE NIGHT SKY
The constellations were never meant to be pictures. Who really named the sky, why it changes by the hour and the month, and the star-hopping routes that unlock the darkest sky in the lower 48.
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TELLURIDE
A name that doesn't mean what it implies, a bank robbery that made a legend, and an 1891 electricity experiment that helped decide how the country would get powered.
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RED ROCKS
The tunnel backstage holds decades of artist signatures responding to each other across time. The Beatles played to empty seats. The WPA road crew found Stegosaurus next door. The rocks are 296 million years old.
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COLORADO WILDFIRES
Six fires, 125,000 acres, three firefighters dead this week. The red stuff planes drop isn't what you think. Firenadoes are real. And most of this traces back to a 1935 policy decision.
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