Welcome! I am a contemplative thinker and photographer from Colorado. In this blog, you'll discover photographs that I've taken on my hiking and backpacking trips, mostly in the American West. I've paired these with my favorite inspirational and philosophical quotes - literary passages that emphasize the innate spirituality of the natural world. I hope you enjoy them!

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In the Spirit of Wildness,

Stephen Hatch
Fort Collins, Colorado

P.S. There's a label index at the bottom of the blog.

Friday, June 12, 2015

Zapata Falls Campground is awesome!



"Camping - the delight of picking a place - fresh, beautiful. Here are no wearisome sermons - comfortable, commonplace and humdrum. Instead, there is an escape from every phase of civilized formality, from all the fixed societal laws of action. Here we find ever-changing scenes: new furniture in the dining room every day and every meal. Suddenly, the great heaven is lighted with ten thousand gleaming worlds. Peaks loom like white spirits at rest. Like some spectral vision, a great shoulder reveals itself here, and a tall peak there, looming fitfully through the mist like phantoms from the spirit world."

The Contemplative John Muir 



Here I'd like to put in a plug for Zapata Falls Campground, built in 2009 using stimulus funds from President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The campground is located 1000 feet above southern Colorado's San Luis Valley and offers sweeping views in every direction. In terms of car camping, it is one of the top three most spectacular campgrounds I've ever camped in!




Photos: Views from Zapata Falls Campground of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Great Sand Dunes, and the San Luis Valley, CO, June 6-7, 2015

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