Mal's Blog

What a winter it has been.  The snowiest, coldest and windiest on record.  This has been a winter like no one here can remember.  Usually we get a bit of snow...it melts...and the rest of the day is sunny.  This year the snow has come and stayed and then more has come. On the other hand, it has b...

Business has been booming and it seems that there has been no time to get to the high country...really high that is.  Fortunately, long-time hiking friends from Michigan let us know that they were headed this way, so I took myself off the schedule with the hope of getting some hiking in.  As it t...

Every year I help work on the further development of the Continental Divide Trail..one of my passions. Last week I spend four days above 12,000...how great is that!  The first two days were spent walking the proposed new trail.  Some of that is in and some just sited.  With that effort we now hav...

The phone has been a bit quiet this morning and I was thinking that perhaps it ought to ring a bit more.  And that may be my biggest problem...how good are things? We've had a lot of rain this month and the wild flowers in the mountains are phenomenal and the valley is lush green.  Don't know tha...

With the celbration of the 4th lasting for about a week, Buena Vista is bustling with visitors.  It appears as though every room in town is taken and that will be the case now for much of the summer.  This is one of the most intersting, beautiful and out-door oriented places in the country.  It i...

Yesterday the temperature in Buena Vista, Colorado hit 90 degrees.  Tyically that happens once a year...occasionally twice.  The air here at 8000 feet in the Heart of the Rockies is quite dry, so that a breeze in the 80s often feels cool.  But at this altitude, the sun is strong, so you can be qu...

The holiday is over and is usually the case, lots of visitors fell in love with the valley.  Some dropped in our office before they left town and I'm sure that we will get calls and e-mails from others before long.  And so begins another season of matching buyers and sellers. If you are in the ma...

Back when I lived in Detroit, Opening Day meant the season opener at Tiger Stadium.  I was a meterologist at the NBC affiliate in Detroit and that meant the forecast had to be right.  On occasion the forecast included snow.   I also had my Captains license and loved being on the water.  I had a F...

I have been doing a lot of walking lately; mainly looking for survey pins on large land parcels.  I find that to be one of the best parts of real estate...basically a day out of the office is always better. In walking around meadows and forests, I found the true test of the presence of spring in ...

Temperatures are hitting the 70s now and there is still plenty of snow on the mountains.  There was a fox in the backyard yesterday as the new animals get their lives started.  Buyers are showing up, ready to select their part of paradise.  I had some great buyers on Saturday.  We just seemed to ...