a wilderness journal

Boiler Bay rocky intertidal (north of the small sandy cove). Is this the boiler from which the site gained its name? Although I lived i...

Sucker Creek in southwestern Oregon. I’m toward the beginning of a road tip through the northwest and the first days of the route have ...

As populated as California is, there are still remote areas that have relatively fewer people, especially in the northern half of the stat...

At the end of my trip through the southwest, I shifted from National Parks and lizards and desert wildflowers to marine life of the central...

A Joshua Tree in the lower Black Rock Canyon. Joshua Tree National Park was the final NPS stop on my April loop through the Southwest....

After backpacking for a night in the Petrified Forest, the rest of my time in northern Arizona was a bit of a whirlwind of short visits to ...

Painted Forest, Petrified Forest National Park. Unusual events leave lasting impressions on the mind, and my overnight trip to the Pa...