A Visit to Ute Mountain, a Detour to the Holy Grail: Four Corners!
Friday, May 26 2023
This is six in a series of dispatches from Clay Jenkinson chronicling his recent journey with two compatriots following the Colorado River and neighboring region.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
What Tree Rings Can Tell Us About Climate Change and the Future of the West
Tuesday, May 23 2023
In an effort to predict the future, scientists are piecing together an astonishingly precise and far-reaching record of the past.
- Published in Features
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center — A Colorado River Journey
Monday, May 22 2023
This is the fifth in a series of dispatches from Clay Jenkinson chronicling his recent journey with two compatriots following the Colorado River and neighboring region. The day was spent at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Deep in Canyon Country — A Colorado River Journey
Sunday, May 21 2023
Today we get officially underway. Frank’s wife Georgie dropped him off around 9 a.m. As we began the great adventure, she handed us a Ziplock bag full of homemade chocolate chip cookies.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Boulder, Utah — A Colorado River Journey
Thursday, May 18 2023
This is the third in a series of dispatches from Clay Jenkinson chronicling his recent journey with two compatriots following the Colorado River and neighboring region. The day was spent in and around Boulder, Utah (population, 248; elevation 6700’).
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
On the Open Road — A Colorado River Journey
Thursday, May 18 2023
Dennis and I left Vail, Colorado, at 9:30 a.m. We drove Interstate 70 to Grand Junction, where Dennis wanted some healthy groceries. I’m from North Dakota — the land of Velveeta — so I am just along for the ride. Dennis and I have known each other for 25 years and our life dreams have found their confluence in Listening to America.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Beyond the Apocalypse and Bathtub Ring — A Colorado River Journey
Tuesday, May 16 2023
This is the first in a series of about a dozen dispatches from Clay Jenkinson we’ll publish over the next several weeks chronicling his recent journey following the Colorado River and neighboring region.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Following the Ghost of John Wesley Powell
Tuesday, May 16 2023
A recent journey following the Colorado River has Clay and his colleagues tracing a trail first mapped by the great American explorer and scientist John Wesley Powell between 1869 and 1875.
- Published in Features
Mother’s Day
Monday, May 15 2023
My mother has been dead for five years now. She died at 86, without spending a single night in a hospital.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Salvaging History with the “Yukon Paleontologist”
Friday, March 17 2023
In the harsh conditions of the Arctic, Dr. Grant Zazula leads an ongoing race against time and nature to save the rich paleontological treasures relinquished by thawing permafrost.…
- Published in Features