Wondering when and how much streamflow to expect in the San Juan River during the 2020 spring runoff? And how will the 2020 spring runoff compare to the mon...

Rather than climbing snowbanks onto the Pagosa Springs High School roof or jumping out of the second-story classroom windows into the snow, the high school t...

Wondering how the snowpack in the Southern San Juan Mountains stacks up to the last year and the historic norm? January is usually the Southern San Juans' 3r...

How does the 2020 snowpack stack up to last year and to the historic norm? Snow-wise, 2019 is a tough act to follow, but I was surprised to learn that 2020 s...

Winter in the mountains...for some, a snow-covered landscape brings chills and dread, for others, it brings excitement and new possibilities. Not only does ...

That's the question I pondered during the 1st week of September as I sweat through my afternoon science lessons. Our mountain high school doesn't have air c...

Alpine lakes are the gems of the San Juan Mountains - aquamarine water and surrounded by jagged peaks and wildflower-filled fens. They owe their finite exist...

Hiking conditions on Pagosa Peak as of 7/20/19

Even though the 4th of July fireworks are over, there may be a natural nightly light show in your own backyard! To the delight of my family, we found firefl...

The Fourmile Trail is free of downed trees (thanks USFS trail crew) and this year there's plenty of water plunging hundreds of feet to the valley floor! If y...

Trails that wind through the ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests have finally dried out and are now lined with a bumper crop of early summer wildflowers...

The town of Pagosa Springs can breathe a sigh of relief: it appears that the much-anticipated peak spring runoff event has occurred without causing too much ...

The current 2019 Southern San Juan snowpack is not unprecedented, but it's getting harder to find years to compare it to! Winter appears to have lost it' gr...

I know, I know - it's snowing again. But it's the greenest spring that I can remember in 20 years and nice weather is arriving just in time

Is this Ireland or the San Juan Mountains? It sure is green, but just looking at the 7-day forecast makes me shiver! In stark contrast to the last 2 decades...

The 2019 winter was officially a winner! The most encouraging sight was seeing the drinking water reservoirs cascading over their spillways! The low elevat...

After a near record-setting February, March is off to a great start, and more storms are on the way! Snow conditions are polar opposite than last year. Cur...

Have we broken any snow depth records this year? To answer that question, I plotted March 1st snow depths over the last 20 winters. Unfortunately, low eleva...

Wondering how our current snowpack stacks up against last year and the historic average? Storms this past week added about four inches of water to the Upper...

Waking up to nearly two feet of fresh snow was a great way to start 2019! The New Year's Storm ranks as one of the top storms of the decade! Wolf Creek Ski...