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It’s day two of my backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon. I’ve set up camp at Havasupai Garden, and the rain, hail, and wind that drove me into my tent for an early afternoon nap has passed overhead. I’m heading out for a hike along the Tonto Platform to overlook the inner canyon from Plateau Point, 1.5 miles from the campground.
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Or, in which we took our boats for a long walk across the desert
Or, the fine art of bailing
Or, how to avoid getting rescued
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Meteorological winter was pretty disappointing– very little snow and long periods of temps above freezing. Now that we’ve turned the page into meteorological spring and snowdrops and crocuses have been spotted in my hometown, we finally got some real snow in New Hampshire… and I went out to play in it!
Continue Reading →It’s been a year since I posted anything, but that doesn’t mean I’ve been sitting still!
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I broke one of my own rules this week– even though President’s Day was a company holiday, it sneaked up on me and I didn’t have my act together to make that 3-day weekend into a 4- or 5- day weekend. I still managed to get out for some fresh air though.
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What do a traveling mud volcano and outsider art have in common? Niland, California. That’s what.
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My Oregon trail began and ended in the Willamette valley just south of Portland. Our friends were kind enough to offer camper parking at the edge of the tree farm where they live. In normal years, this is the rich green farmland that pioneers braved the Oregon trail to reach.
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After the fourth heat wave of the summer, it was a great relief when the weather broke, sending cool though still humid air over the White Mountains. It was finally a nice day for a hike!
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It’s been a rainy summer, so this year’s crop of forest fungus is spectacular. Why should wildflowers get all the glamor shots when the fruiting bodies of fungi are just as beautiful?
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Jeffery Pine trees (Pinus Jeffreyi) smell like butterscotch. Don’t get me wrong— I enjoy the scent of balsam firs (Abies balsamea) that I’m used to in the White Mountains (they smell like, well, pine)— but there’s also something wonderful about stepping out of the camper door into a forest that smells like baking cookies.
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