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Apr 25, 20203 min read
Spencer Trail, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
I started the Spencer Trail hike before 7 am, when the sun cast half the land with gold and chased me on the slope.
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Apr 24, 20203 min read
Cathedral Wash, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
The scorching sun streaked that Westward gold and split the rocks into a mile of shadows.
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Dec 24, 20183 min read
Bledsoe Creek State Park, TN
We stride into the cloud-covered forest wearing outfits reserved for the sun. I stuff my fingers in my vest and brace for the cold.
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Nov 11, 20183 min read
Machine Falls Loop, TN
Hour-old raindrops fall from the rocky overhang and slam my very large leaf. All around me, leaves float on the stream and collect in dams.
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Aug 11, 20183 min read
Jack Clayborn Millennium Trail, TN
A chorus of crunching on crisp leaves, like heavy, sporadic raindrops on a summer eve, sounds from the overgrown Dutchman’s pipevine.
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Apr 28, 20183 min read
Buggytop Cave, TN
“Slurp, burble, gulp,” my sister Danielle chants as the slippery mud swallows her Vibram sneakers with every step. “It’s eating me alive!”
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Feb 3, 20184 min read
Rainie Falls Trail, OR
We’ve traveled 2,000 miles to see the ocean claw at the jagged edge of everything I’ve known and the whole state glisten with winter rain.
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Jan 31, 20182 min read
Cascade Head, OR
The grey sky touches the ocean horizon, and sheer rock face drops to a cacophony of crashing waves.
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Jul 28, 20176 min read
Jenny Lake, Grand Teton Nat'l Park
We hopped back on dry land and rounded a bend. Ahead of us, a brown bear strolled toward us like a casual fellow hiker.
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Jul 27, 20177 min read
Avalanche Peak, Yellowstone Nat'l Park
We’re on a mission to find something we lost, and we know exactly where to look: where the white pine recedes to chalky scree.
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