There are as many disease courses as there are spondies with Ankylosing Spondylitis. Read more about my experience with AS disease flares.

Six easy, beautiful hiking trails in and around Colorado Springs to explore in any season!

If you want to visit popular parks or trails over the summer, the winter months are the ideal time to start planning that outdoor adventure.

Though this disease is painful and can be debilitating, many are able to lead a “normal”, albeit altered, life. What might AS mean for you?

Read about this lakeside trail at the base of the tallest peak in Colorado that leads to a late 19th century historic resort!

Anyone else get lost in the slew of confusing and hard-to-pronounce terminology that comes along with an Axial Spondyloarthritis diagnosis?

Looking for some great nature, environmental, or adventure writing reads? Check out these three books from big names in the subgenre.

Eleven Mile Canyon Recreation Area, conveniently located an hour away from Colorado Springs, boasts many activities for the outdoor lover.

I’ve learned to stop relying on trail ratings because the simplistic rating system is subjective at best and not meant for disabled bodies.

In the middle of our first Colorado winter, I could think of no better place to visit than the warm red rock wilderness of southeastern Utah

Gastrointestinal issues are some of the more common complications of Axial Spondyloarthritis that occur outside of the spine...

Stacia and I walked along the trail, poking our heads into Talus House, climbing wooden ladders into the few cavetes the NPS allows visitors

Other than a quiet, peaceful hike, here are five reasons to get out early on your trek to Zapata Falls in southern Colorado.

February 4th, 2021 Identifying trails that are appropriate for the hiker with a disability is easier said than done, right? Finding easy,...

January 25th, 2021 Here’s the deal - chronic pain is no joke. It’s nothing to shrug off, to downplay, or to disregard. But many of us...

January 9th, 2020 I’m confident that 2020 will be a year to remember, for the most obvious reasons. The pandemic and the resulting...

As we walked slowly up the trail, eyes and ears on alert for more deer or wildlife, we saw the buck jump back on the trail and join the two

December 9th, 2020 Tomorrow is another day. Carpe Diem. Here today, gone tomorrow. There are lots of clichés and aphorisms out there...

I wanted to spend the entire day on these trails, exploring along the river, then further up the hillside into the Aspen grove, then deeper

But my friends cannot see my increased inflammation, my coworkers can not read my pain levels on any given day, my doctors cannot record the

In Hermosa, we followed a sign for the Haviland Lake State Wildlife Area to Wagon trail. A plaque at the trailhead explains how this trail

Great Sand Dunes National Park is absolutely stunning, and if you’re looking for a campsite that allows access to all of this park’s

Morning stiffness comes with an urgency to move, but also a hesitation to move and cause more pain. On other mornings, I wake with mild-to-

As it turns out, hiking as a form of exercise has a lot more to offer than indoor exercise routines. So how does hiking affect your overall