Upper Antelope Canyon (HDR)
Page Arizona does not rank as a cultural destination. This small town on the northern edge of Arizona was established in 1957 to support the construction of the nearby Glen Canyon Dam. Page’s history is (more…)
April 25, 2012
January 4, 2012
Mt. St. Helens: Lava Canyon and Ape Cave
Near Windy Ridge Spirit Lake is still jammed with dead trees left from the 1980 eruption. Mt. Rainier appears over the ridge.
Most visitors to Mt. St. Helens approach the National Monument from Castle Rock Washington. Highway 504 takes tourists from the Interstate 5 corridor to the Coldwater and Johnston Ridge vantage (more…)
December 29, 2011
Mt. St. Helens: Plains of Abraham/Ape Canyon
Mt. St. Helens signature mountain biking ride is a combination of two trails. Ape Canyon Trail climbs on a ridge above its namesake canyon. Named for a purported Bigfoot sighting in 1924, the canyon is a (more…)
Mount Saint Helens: The Climb
Climbing Mt. St. Helens is just a walk in the forest down low.
Periodically the notion of climbing a mountain sparks through our synapses. Usually good sense prevails. The painful pounding reality of the effort required to reach the top of some remote mountain quickly tempers the overactive enthusiasm. This time we made an exception. Mt. St. Helens was just too interesting not to climb.
November 23, 2011
National Parks: Mt. Rainier
Flowing water inside Rainier National Park (HDR)
Next up on our National Park tour was historic Mount Rainier. Established in 1899, Rainier is the fifth area to be designated as a National Park in the United States. Today Rainier, not far from metropolitan Seattle Washington, is a (more…)
November 8, 2011
National Parks: Olympic
On the tip of Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula, more or less due west of Seattle, sits Olympic National Park. Just north of Olympic, across the Juan de Fuca Strait, is Canada’s Vancouver Island. After an (more…)
July 28, 2011
US-97 and Shaniko Oregon
The hotel in Shaniko, perhaps the Columbia Southern Hotel
US-97 extends from the village of Weed in Northern California through Washington State to the Canadian border. The highway is scenic for much of its length; it is one of our favorite roads.
July 21, 2011
National Parks: Redwood
Looking to the sky from the base of the tall coastal redwoods in Redwood National Park (color infrared image)
In the extreme north coastal region of California, near the border with Oregon, are Redwood State and National Parks (RSNP). This conglomeration (more…)
June 30, 2011
North Coast: Roadside Attractions
North Coast roadside attractions
Not long after Redwoods National Park was established in 1968, my family road tripped up the North Coast for a visit. I don’t recall much in particular (more…)
North Coast: California Highway One
Wild flowers and the Pacific Ocean
Traveling to all points of the globe has had an unintentional consequence. We’ve neglected the plus routes near home. We’d make amends on our annual (more…)
