a wilderness journal

Lilium columbianum , near Comet Falls, Mt. Rainier National Park, July 2016. Lilies are a stunning group of flowering plants, and many...

View of Mt. Lassen from inside the crater of  Cinder Cone, Aug 2016. Except perhaps for Redwood National Park , I've been to Lass...

The northern Cascades, looking south from the Thornton Lakes area. 2016 is the centennial year of the National Park Service, and with a...

Snow lake, the southern end. Alpine lakes are one of my favorite destinations in the mountain wildernesses of the Pacific states. At hi...

Last week was my first visit to Mt. Rainier National Park in central Washington . The peak at the center of the park is the highest mou...

Valley leading up to Oregon Caves National Monument. The Oregon Caves National Monument lies in the Siskiyou range, a mountainous r...

The northern-most significant stretch of rocky coastline in California borders the small sleepy town of Crescent City . Last week offered...

According to the fossil record, redwoods once occupied a large expanse of territory across North America . Today they are restricted to...

Lake and stream in the Granite Chief Wilderness. The Granite Chief is the northern-most wilderness of the high Sierra, located west of...

Looking southwest into Tenaya Canyon with Yosemite Valley in the distance. I took a quick weekend trip to Yosemite this month. The wat...

Macrocystis pyrifera (giant kelp) growing in a shallow pool in the intertidal. Big Sur is one of my favorite places along the northea...

Pleurophycus gardneri sporophyte with Laminaria setchellii and other seaweeds on low intertidal rocks at Glass Beach, Fort Bragg, CA, Apri...