a wilderness journal

I haven’t posted on this blog for a year (!) and I have a number of trips to get caught up on, starting with a fun week in Wyoming at Yello...

Bryce Canyon is the smallest of Utah ’s five national parks, and the last I have been able to visit. It also appears to be the youngest ...

Southwest of Arches in Utah is Canyonlands National Park , a part of the Colorado Plateau centered on the meeting point of the Colorado a...

Landscape Arch (over 300 ft long!) in the Devil's Garden region of the park. At Arches National Park , one can’t help but be preo...

The Great Basin region of the United States is a series of alternating mountain ranges and wide valleys stretching across Nevada and west...

Mauna Kea from the west, Nov 2015. From a geologic perspective, Hawaii is an ephemeral and dynamic anomaly. The islands’ origins lie d...

Crater Lake National Park was the last significant stop on my recent trip to the Pacific Northwest . Located about 50 miles north of the ...