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Not What It Appears to Be…
ByFrans Lambrechtsen November 22, 2018February 3, 2026

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Have you ever found yourself in a place that wasn’t what it appeared to be? The Medicine Bow Peak area in southeast Wyoming is like that. It’s in the Snowy Range, a collection of majestic and imposing mountain peaks about 1-hour’s drive from Laramie. If you’re not familiar with Laramie, then it too is about…

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Idaho

Beauty Amid a City of Rocks?
ByFrans Lambrechtsen November 3, 2018October 13, 2020

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It’s hard to tell now, but there once was a time when I was really into rock climbing. As it happened, a good friend of mine was introducing me to the sport. He was “into it” (…and as far as I know, he still is). I was learning the sport at some of the well-known…

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Colorado

The Unsinkable Molly Brown: Fact or Fiction?
ByFrans Lambrechtsen October 20, 2018February 28, 2026

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The mythical “Unsinkable Molly Brown” was actually…a real person. She was known as Margaret (or Maggie) Brown. Margaret was born in July 1867 in Hannibal, Missouri, to John and Johanna Tobin. In the mid-1880’s, two of her siblings moved to Leadville, Colorado. (Nowadays, Leadville is about a 2 hour drive up into the mountains behind…

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