From Forest to Field at Raccoon Creek
A slow June loop in western Pennsylvania, up the Appaloosa Trail, along the Heritage Trail, and out into the big open sky of Doak Field.
Read this entry →Field Notes
Notes from the trail. Conditions, wildlife, and the light on a particular afternoon. The small details that don’t fit on a brochure but are the whole reason to walk slowly. Every photograph in these field notes was taken by me, personally, on each individual trip.
The East Glacier Trail and a River of Ice
A late-spring loop on the East Glacier Trail near Juneau, through Tongass rainforest to a string of overlooks above the Mendenhall Glacier and its milky lake.
Read this entry →Lindy Point and the Frost-Heaved Ground
A short March walk out to Lindy Point above the Blackwater Canyon, and a closer look at the hummocky, frost-heaved ground underfoot, a sign of how cold this high corner of West Virginia really gets.
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A March climb up the Seneca Rocks Trail in West Virginia, when the leaves were still weeks away and the whole mountain was bare to its bones, the great quartzite fin standing clear above a sleeping forest.
Read this entry →A Piece of Canada at Cranberry Glades
A June walk on the boardwalk through the Cranberry Glades, a high boreal bog left behind by the Ice Age in the mountains of West Virginia, with a drive out along the Highland Scenic Highway.
Read this entry →Four Places in One at New River Gorge
A late-January walk along the Endless Wall Trail in West Virginia, when the leaves are down and the gorge shows its bones, and a few thoughts on how a season can change a place entirely.
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