BoCo Wild Writers

Final segment of my walk across Boulder County. I did the rest the last week of March but even in this low snowpack year I didn’t feel comfortable trying to get up on the Divide in March. Yesterday Alex did some amazing driving on the long, rough Corona Pass Road to deliver me to the western side of Rollins Pass, and I walked down to where I had started things off at Hessie. This is all the King Lake Trail - gorgeous. I saw a total of two people until Alex and Fennec met me at the close-in Hessie lot (we still had a little ways to go to get to my starting point/the truck). By then it was dark and I said, “There’s a black shape…”. It was a moose maybe ten feet off the trail. We talked to it, it seemed calm, Fennec was on the leash and we kept him as far away as possible…and the moose let us pass on through. No photos of that! I will integrate this last segment with the movie I made earlier and post when it’s all done. P.S. Can you spot the marmot in these photos?

Tomorrow’s high in Boulder: 96. At Ceran St. Vrain: 80. 🤔 Hope to see you there! Register/details at link in comments.

New Hike & Write location for Tuesday: Ceran Saint Vrain, above Jamestown. There are still spaces available - register at link in comments. At a projected 81 degrees, shady, with creek access, it will be nicer than Sanitas's expected 97...

Location/time change for Tuesday's Hike & Write With a forecasted high of 97 degrees Tuesday, let's head for the hills and hike the Ceran Saint Vrain Trail above Jamestown instead of Sanitas. Register now!

Sales of my book What the River May Bring: Impressions of Interior Alaska have now raised over $400 in proceeds donated to Environmental Education programs at Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge! Here are photos Karin Lehmkuhl Bodony took of middle schoolers in Galena, Alaska enjoying the camp chairs she was able to buy. 💚

Need a little poetry to go with your World Cup?

Thanks to all who came out for the Coal Creek Full Moon Hike & Write! We ate strawberries, drank Full Moon Spice iced tea, read “Dusk with Forest Fire” by Michael McIrvin, talked about aubades and nocturnes, shared an experience that was awe-inspiring AND uncomfortable, listed what’s arriving and departing in the landscape right now, read “I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake” by A Horse (from The Onion), talked about how the horse’s voice came through, learned about kennings, wrote about an experience the moon would like to have using our own interpretation of what the moon would sound like, watched the sun set and moon rise, read about the Strawberry Moon in The Lunar Year: Moon Magic Through the Seasons by Alison Davies, read about how sunset and the rising of the full moon are around the same time in The Wild Dark: Finding the Night Sky in the Age of Light by Craig Childs, listened to coyotes and killdeer, shared our moon writing, watched bats and read a bit from The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell, noticed how the color of the moon changed as it rose, read “Prayer for a Planet in Peril” by Kelli Russell Agodon, said what we would take away from the evening, and brought home a packet of moon poems. Thanks for a lovely evening, everyone! Next free Hike & Write: Sanitas loop, Tuesday, July 14th, 9am-1pm. Register at link in comments…

This changes everything

Hope you can join Moudi Sbeity , Brice Maiurro , and me at the Poets for Science gathering at Wick Poetry Center Kent State University November 12-14. So many amazing sessions to choose from! These photos are just a sliver of what will be on offer. Register at poetsforscience.org.

Thanks to .waldman and for collaborating with to create the Coal Creek Water Dance, and to all who joined us in celebrating the creek. 🌊💚🧑‍🩰