After each sighting by a villager, his trail quickly went cold.
The switchback trail quickly yielded grand views of the rocky buttes along Cougar Ridge across the valley and Minturn below.
The residency interview trail quickly becomes a lonesome journey, so when I was on it this winter, I'd usually have the hotel room television turned on for some background noise and often find myself watching ESPN's SportsCenter.
The piece is entertaining enough as spectacle - all five male performers b-boying, shoulder-spinning and hand-balancing with panache - but the narrative trail quickly grows cold, and you're pushed to tell what's happening at any given moment.
l Ten lightweight, off-road motorcycles snake down a red dirt trail, quickly thread a narrow pass between mammoth boulders, then climb steeply upward toward blue sky and a shimmering desert vista that seems to go on for a hundred miles.
Snakes rely on vibration to hear and while they can sense you coming if you have stomped about loudly enough, they cannot deal with removing themselves fast enough if you blaze up a trail quickly and provide little warning of your approach.
