Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My friends and I optimistically but naively brought our fly fishing gear on a backpacking trip into the White Clouds at the end of ...

For over 40 years, the U.S. Forest Service has been monitoring high-altitude mountain lakes in Colorado to track the environmental impacts of human-caused pollutants and climate changes in delicate ...

State wildlife managers have withdrawn fishing limits at high mountain lake in anticipation of stocking it with a species of trout that was nearly wiped out by a wildfire seven years ago. Colorado ...

We pushed ourselves to the limit on this high mountain adventure, hiking miles to reach a hidden alpine lake. The climb wasn’t easy, but when we finally got there the trout action made it all worth it ...

Despite being located some 40 minutes from Boulder, the unspoiled landscape surrounding Gold Lake makes for the look and feel of a remote retreat. A curse was placed on Colorado’s Boulder Valley by ...

This is the time of year when I get this urge to pack up a light fishing rod and reel, a sleeping bag, small tent and a couple of days’ worth of food and head up a forest trail to one of the hike-in ...

On a backpacking trip in Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains in September, we were shocked and disappointed to find that Ocalkens Lake #2 was nearly dry. So much for the fishing gear we brought with us.