On a blue-sky spring day, Jill Baron, a petite 69-year-old, inflated her packraft on the snow-covered shore of The Loch, an alpine lake in the middle of Rocky Mountain National Park. When she was done ...

Rocky Mountain National Park is home to some outstanding hiking ... Follow signs for Loch Vale to keep chugging, and once you reach the Loch (a lake offering incredible views of faraway peaks ...

On a cold, clear November day in Rocky Mountain National Park ... As project manager of the Loch Vale Watershed Long-Term Monitoring Project (a collaboration among the U.S. Geological Survey, National ...