a wilderness journal

The extent of the fires sweeping through the west this summer is sobering. As I perused an interactive map published by the New York Times ...

Earlier on this blog I wrote about a remarkable field biology course I took as an undergraduate student at UC Santa Cruz where we spent ...

Hawaii has a relatively small tide range compared to the west coast of the US mainland. For example, the spring tide range is less than ...

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

( I am still catching up on blog posts from late 2018 and early 2019…the next couple pertain to a trip to Kaua’i in November 2018.) F...

4 Sept 2018 . During my week-long trip to Wyoming last summer, I actually spent more time in Grand Teton National Park than Yellowstone...

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...

There are fantastic low morning tides in the northeastern Pacific this week and I came out to the central California coast very early thi...