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Maren Horjus

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As seen in: 5280 Magazine, Outside Magazine, REI Co-op Journal, Uncommon Path, Backpacker Magazine, GearJunkie
Outdoors journalist with a sports problem. Digital director at @5280magazine, 2x author, and Northwestern alum. Formerly @rei and @backpackermag. 🏕❄️🏄‍♀️
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11 Colorado Books We’re Adding to Our Summer TBR

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By Maren Horjus Verified
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The warmer months are a time for relaxation and catching up on all that we haven’t read, so we checked with the experts at the world-renowned Tattered Cover to get some recommendations for your summer reading list. Whether you’re headed to the high country or a secluded beach, these books are all worthy of a place in your suitcase. (Plus: three scary books.
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The Places Fire Takes From Us

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By Maren Horjus Verified
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As I write this, the outside air temperature is 80 degrees. Humidity is about 20 percent. The wind is steady and relentless at about 15 mph. It hasn’t rained in our rural Rocky Mountain community for at least two weeks, and little is predicted for the next 10 days. Fire restrictions are in place.
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Rodeo Dunes is Colorado’s Most Anticipated Golf Course. I Played It.

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By Maren Horjus Verified
| 5280 Magazine Verified
Few of us recognize fate when it rises to meet us, when history opens its books and offers an opportunity to add our names. So it was for me on a recent Thursday, when I hit a clunky drive to the left side of the fairway, a solid-but-over-drawn nine-iron short of the green, and a blind-luck lag putt to tap-in range. Said tap-in made it four strokes. Par, in other words. Yet another way to put it: Good, but unremarkable.
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