Author receiving Ticket on Vail Pass During my freshman year, two friends from my dormitory, Jack Barr and Bruce Cole, took me under their wings. Jack showed me how to be part of the ski scene. “Jeans are cool and that’s what the good skiers wear. If ya don’t fall, ya don’t need stretch pants.”
https://vimeo.com/78832857 A group from Arvada Rotory Club have flown into Guachochi, Mexico, for several years to bring medical aid and eye care to the community. Each trip seems to generate both adventure and a high sense of satisfaction of giving. I also have a separate back-story while documenting these medical trips. See Survival at Sierra
https://vimeo.com/103880462 I covered the Cowboy Poetry Gathering at the Arvada Center for local CBS affiliate in the 1996. I’m not a western music lover, but I sure enjoy seeing these story tellers and musicians in person. Love the talent and local culture.
https://vimeo.com/435567876 One of the most talented painters I know runs a ranch in South Park, Colorado. Learn a little about M H Scott with this short video.
https://vimeo.com/36874307 I interviewed the late Glen Aultman for CBS’s affiliate KCNC in 1998. He and his father ran their portrait studio in Trinidad, Colorado, for over a hundred and 20 years. Glen passed in 2000.
https://vimeo.com/60596489 Anderson Ranch is the major supporter of the arts on the western slope of Colorado. They have a large campus at the Snowmass Ski Area with programing in all aspects of the arts. Jim Baker answered an ad and took a job in which he thought it entailed maintaining the darkroom. It
https://vimeo.com/60802669 Al Weber opened and operated his photography school in Victor, Colorado in the 80s. Al taught along side Ansel at the Ansel Adams Photography Workshops in Yosemite and brought the big names of fine art photography to the Rockies. We became friends and he supported and mentored me until his death in 2016. He
https://vimeo.com/103862098 Back in the 90’s, Colorado was rated 47th in funding for the arts in the USA. In a effort by the Colorado Arts Consortium to get more funding, I produced a film to bring more awareness to the plight of the arts in our state. Two segments that were aired on KCNC detailing the
https://vimeo.com/106468411 An award winning documentary (video trailer below) of a 67-year-old grandmother building her totally off-the-grid home. Pascha actually dug the trenches, placed the timbers, wired the outlets, milled the cabinets and trawled the walls of her Earthship. Pascha’s 12-year pioneering effort fought through a mountain of regulatory barriers to bring alternative (nonstandard) construction methods
The Arvada Rotory Club held a number of eye-glass and medical clinics in Guachochi, a 8,000 foot high community in Mexico. I went along and made a documentary titled Medical Flights to Sierra Madre. Each trip had its own personality and lots of adventure. One winter I had a lifetime experience and it made a
