Claire Walter


Biography

Boulder, CO-based Claire Walter is an award-winning freelance writer specializing in travel, snowsports and food. She lives less than an hour from the east entrance to Rocky Mountain National National Park. The most exotic stamp in her National Parks Passport is from the Anaktuvuk Pass ranger station in Alaska's Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.

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Claire's Most Recent Comments (view all)
  • 11/17/2008 5:00 am - Fifty Year Ago Today, Warren Harding and His Buddies Conquered “Unclimbable” El Capitan : My friend Sybille Hechtel, a "sandwich generation climber" (daughter of a Sierra climber and mother of an 18-year-old climber), has written about the El Cap reunion on http://funclimbsaroundtheworld.com/. Scroll down to her posts of Nov 7 thru Nov 13. Claire Walter, http://travel-babel.blogspot.com
  • 11/17/2008 4:52 am - End of a Curious Era at Mount Rainier National Park : I'll give you odds that it won't be long before this weird but distinctive structure is mourned -- maintainenance headaches or no mainteinance headachces, energy efficient or not. An article in yesterday's NYTimes on Buffalo, NY's architectural treasures dating from its prosperity as a Great Lakes port at the end ...


Claire's Most Recent Articles (view all)

Floating Through Life on the Rio Grande And Big Bend National Park

We don’t expect adventure on a flatwater river, but sometimes it just happens.

Fort Davis National Historic Site, Home of the Buffalo Soldiers

With Barack Obama set to become the first American president of African-American descent, 3,000 or so of the 19th Century Army veterans who served at Fort Davis must be high-fiving each other somewhere in the beyond.