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Showing posts with label wilderness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wilderness. Show all posts
08 May 2022

Death Valley: Wildrose Peak

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The deserts of southeastern California and Nevada are expansive, and their large size is driven home by the maze of valleys, canyons, and ...
13 July 2019

Napali coast

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The Kalalau trail traverses the famous northwestern coast of Kaua’i in what I presume is one of the most scenic hiking trails anyw...
19 May 2018

Carlsbad Caverns backcountry

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One of the best ways to experience the National Parks is in the backcountry, off the beaten path. There is a time and place for the more c...
25 April 2018

Arizona cacti

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Heading east from San Diego I descended into the hot Imperial Valley and the Sonoran Desert . Ocotillos appeared signaling entry into th...
24 September 2017

Carson-Iceberg Wilderness

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Folger Peak from the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness. After a hot California summer (one for which I was admittedly away for a decent portio...
19 August 2017

Wilderness: An enduring resource

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Three Sisters Wilderness, Cascade Range, Oregon, 2012. Over the course of working on this blog for the last six years, I have shared th...
26 April 2017

Bandelier National Monument

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Bandelier is a small gem located in the mountains northwest of Santa Fe in northern New Mexico . It is close to Los Alamos National Labs ...
30 October 2016

Muir: advocate for the wild

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At a bookstore in Portland in July I purchased a biography of John Muir by history professor Donald Worster. An excellent book, I graduall...