We just wrapped up our Colorado Sky Islands adventure over Labor Day weekend — originally planned as the San Juan Sky Islands — and it turned into something entirely different than expected. Between active fires and burn‑scar flood risk in the San Juans, we made the call a few weeks out to reroute the back half of the trip away from the southern Alpine Loop. Instead of Cinnamon and California Pass, we pointed the group north into the Elk Mountains near Crested Butte. Everyone stayed on board...

We've got a new home base for our regular meetups: Prost Brewing's Wheat Ridge Biergarten. If you haven't been to their brand new location, it's exactly what it sounds like — a proper biergarten with a big patio, a solid draft list, and a food menu good enough to make dinner out of. Plenty of room to spread out, easy parking, and it's centrally located for most of the Front Range crew. Basically everything we want out of a meetup spot. First one's on September 8th, starting at 6:30pm. Then,...

Not everyone's calendar looks the same. Some of you can carve out a Friday-to-Sunday and call it good. Others are already counting down to the week you can disappear off-grid entirely. Good news — we've got a trip for both, plus one in between. Hope to see you out there! Here's what's on the board so far: The Weekend: San Juan Sky Islands September 4–7 · Golden, CO · 9am start · Easy to Moderate If you've never run a multi-day trip before, this is the one built for you. Four days, roughly...