Nature, environment, and a little philosophy
A late summer outing to Santa Rosa Island Water, wind and sunlight are the prevailing elements out here among California's Channel Islands. All is scoured, bleached, or blue. Look at aerials of the outlying islands, Santa Rosa and San Miguel. Can you see the long, parallel dunes stretching across the islands like filaments? The dunes …
I. C'est notre premier voyage hors des Etats-Unis depuis le début de la pandémie. Les vols domestiques sont bondés. Notre premier vol, de San Diego à Dallas, part en retard et les passagers se plaignent entre eux. Il y a eu des vagues d'annulations et chacun compare depuis combien de jours il se présente à …
Light seeps into the sky. Dawn breaks but mountains hide the sun. There's movement in a nearby sleeping bag. Shift deeper into the duvet. Pull the hood over. Trap the heat. Fall back asleep.
Our annual Sierra Nevada backpacking trip might be the only predictable part of our lives, yet we're never proactive enough to score permits for the "good" trailheads. That's how we found ourselves hiking over Baxter Pass in the last week of June, elevation 12,300-feet (3,749 meters), practically alone on the trail, managing headaches and nose …
July 2020: plans to return to the Alps this summer crashed and burned, so we pivoted locally and went backpacking in Southern California's backyard: the Eastern Sierra. Eric and I aren't classic trail warriors. We prefer to follow our curiosity up pathless valleys and over unnamed saddles, walking quietly, treading lightly. Optimism is our strongest …
Blue I knew it would be bright but I didn't think it would be blue. Electric! From the cliffs, my first sight of the crashing surf was such a shock I gasped. On the beach, I hopped about behind Eric and watched the ground light up beneath his feet. Water splashed around us like blue …
Stars, like salt. 