I’M QUINCY KOETZ

An outdoorsman and Nurse Practitioner living in Northern California. When I first started this blog, I was an EMT living in Southern California and this blog has followed...

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 By Quincy Koetz
Grizzly Peak and Cupid

Grizzly Peak and Cupid from Loveland Pass

For years I’ve come to Keystone in July for an important work related trip. Every year I drive up from Denver and take Loveland Pass over the divide. There’s dozens of worthy mountains in the area. Grays Peak and Torreys Peak are the most prominent and well traveled. But there’s plenty of lesser climbed 13ers...

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Chicago Lakes Mt Blue Sky

Hiking Chicago Lakes Trail up Mt Blue Sky

With the closure Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway in September 2024 (for repairs/road upgrades) a normally congested 14er has become quite wild. Here’s an option for a wilderness hike of a Front Range favorite. I hiked Mount Blue Sky via the Chicago Lakes trail from Echo Lake Park in July 2025. Here’s some of my...

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Bair Island Hiking

A Salute to Bair Island Hiking and Birding

I’m going off-script from my fanatical peakbagging in covering Bair Island Ecological Reserve. It’s fairly flat, urbanized and not exactly a destination for hiking. But good events in life have naturally contracted my world to a much smaller one. While I’ll eventually return to mountain climbing, I must find contentment in the mor...

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