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From Glaciers to Geysers

In the next several blog posts, I’ll provide some highlights of a recent eighteen-day trip to the Patagonia and Atacama Desert regions of South America.   Read more

Survival

The record snowfall during the winter of 2010-11 created a world of beauty and solitude as described in an earlier blog post, Winter in Yellowstone.    For Yellowstone’s wildlife it was a different story as it was a brutal time in a life and death fight for survival. Read more

Whitetop II – 90 Minutes of Time Travel

In an earlier post, I detailed a January winter morning on Whitetop Mountain located in southwestern Virginia.  After a snowy and blustery mid-February weekend in the High Country,  it was time for another trip to Whitetop; however this one’s time travel only, from thirty minutes before sunrise (SR-30) to one hour after sunrise (SR+60).  No speeding allowed!   Read more

Ripples, Cascades and Waterfalls

A river has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us. — Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It     Read more