Paul Larmer’s 40-year ride with HCN

EARLY ON THE MORNING of June 15, 2009, Paul Larmer, then-executive director of High Country, climbed into the company’s Toyota “puddle-jumper” and headed out of Paonia, Colorado, bound for Wyoming. I was the magazine’s editor-in-chief at the time and rode shotgun, while intern Jeff Chen squeezed into the backseat. The stated objective of our jaunt around the Cowboy State was to meet with donors and readers, but Larmer also wanted to pry us away from our computers and get us out into the actual landscape we covered.