A Beautiful Disaster - Trail of the Ancients
Video of my visit to the Trail of the Ancients, I spent the night on the rim of the canyon and looked at the stars, listening to coyotes...


A Beautiful Disaster - Shutdown
From Del Norte I headed southwest trying to find some warmer temperatures and it just wasn't happening. I got to Mesa Verde and realized,...
A Beautiful Disaster - Up, Up, and Away!
My brother Dave took me up over the Rio Grande River to paint while flying! It was a bit bumpy, basically I got a decent underpainting...
A Beautiful Disaster - Next Stop, Jail
After getting towed out of the mud I got stuck again (jail) in Creede, CO. Sherriff Hosselkuss cuffed me and ran me in. :) At this point...


A Beautiful Disaster - Disaster Strikes Again
Just outside of Bayfield I passed a large murder of crows and decided I needed some photos of them perched around their carrion so I...


A Beautiful Disaster - Red Mountain Pass
Next stop after Ridgway was Red Mountain Pass near Silverton. The storm had laid down quite a layer of snow at this altitude, but I...
A Beautiful Disaster - Sliding Down The Mountain (Video)
Here's a quick video I took while being towed off the mountain after getting stuck on my second day out. There is no way I could have...


A Beautiful Disaster - Traveling Companions
While waiting for the underpainting of the Ridgway painting to dry, I did a sketch of my buddy Yorick (my version of "Wilson"). We've...


A Beautiful Disaster - A New Friend
It was quite a surprise to run into the "Elephant Cow" while traveling through Ridgway, I watched him for some time and surprisingly he...


A Beautiful Disaster - Mud Wrestling
My first night out and I made the ultimately disasterous decision to pull off onto a dirt road and camp. Unfortunately, it led up a steep...






















