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 …
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 …
Stars, like salt. 