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2026.08.08Chaffee County, Colorado
Clear Creek Reservoir
Clear Creek Reservoir sits in Chaffee County, on the creek it's named for, a few miles above where that water reaches the Arkansas. Pueblo Water owns the reservoir and the dam;…
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2026.08.08Lake County, Colorado
Twin Lakes
Twin Lakes sits at about 9,200 feet in Lake County, at the eastern foot of Independence Pass. The lakes are glacial; dams later turned them into working storage for the…
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2026.08.06Fremont Pass, Colorado
Clinton Gulch
Clinton Gulch Reservoir sits just off Fremont Pass at around 11,000 feet, held in a forested valley under the Tenmile crest. From above it reads the way a high reservoir should —…
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2026.07.03Eldorado Springs, Colorado
Eldorado Springs canyon
From the air the canyon reads as two red walls with a thread of water between them. South Boulder Creek runs the floor, cold and fast off the Front Range. The rock is Fountain…
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2023.08.26Madruzzo, Trentino, Italy
Castel Toblino, Trentino
From the air the spit barely holds. Castel Toblino sits on a low tongue of land that reaches into Lake Toblino, wooded hills closing the valley behind it and the green water lying…
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2023.08.20Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy
Bellagio, Lake Como
From the air the shape is plain. A wooded promontory pushes south into Lake Como and divides it in two — the Como arm running southwest, the Lecco arm southeast — an inverted Y…
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2023.08.20Varenna, Lake Como, Italy
Lake Como, from Varenna
Above the eastern shore at Varenna, August 2023. From the air the village reads as a single stack of stone and ochre, stepping down its promontory to the water with boats moored…
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2023.08.16Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Lake Lugano at dusk
The bay is a crescent, closed off by a mountain at each end. On the south side Monte San Salvatore rises as a nearperfect pyramid, 912 metres; Monte Brè answers it across the…
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2023.08.14Gornergrat, Zermatt, Switzerland
Gornergrat glacier panorama
The ridge drops away and the Gorner Glacier fills the valley floor — a grey river of ice more than twelve kilometres long, curling down from the Monte Rosa snowfields. It is the…
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2023.08.14Zermatt, Switzerland
The Matterhorn, from Zermatt
I flew this above Zermatt in August 2023. From the air the valley floor reads narrow: the village packed along the Matter Vispa, larch slopes climbing steeply on either side, a…
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2023.08.11Crans-Montana, Valais, Switzerland
Above Crans-Montana
The shelf reads as a clean step. Forest climbs off the valley floor, then the slope eases and flattens, and CransMontana sits on the level — roughly 1,500 metres up, on a plateau…
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2023.08.11Ayent, Valais, Switzerland
Lac de Tseuzier, Valais
From the air the dam reads first: a thin curve of concrete, 156 metres from crest to base, wedged into a notch in the rock. Behind it the water lies flat and turquoise at 1,777…
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2023.08.08Madonna di Campiglio, Trentino, Italy
Madonna di Campiglio
The ridge came up first — a grey rock crest barely wide enough to walk, with a small iron summit marker bolted into the stone. West of it the ground fell away into the…
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2023.04.24Chautauqua, Boulder, Colorado
The Flatirons over Chautauqua
The Flatirons stand on the east face of Green Mountain, five of them, numbered First through Fifth from north to south. The geometry is plain: parallel slabs of Fountain Formation…
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