Speaking of attacks on Gotham…tonight's thunderstorm. From NYC photographer Inga Sarda-Sorenson. Meanwhile, a new study from James Anderson and associates at Harvard unexpectedly finds that this sort of huge thunderstorm could damage the ozone layer, allowing more ultraviolet light to reach the earth. From the Christian Science Monitor: The study by Dr. Anderson's team isContinue reading “Monster threatens NYC…and ozone layer”
Category Archives: the land
Naked Hiking Day on the Appalachian Trail
Chris Nottoli, with whom I hiked for a week on the AT in April, is still at it, has passed the thousnad-mile mark, found a band of fellow thru-hikers, and appropriately celebrated Naked Hiking Day a month ago. To see his charming posts from the trail go to Walk It Off, Nottoli.
Sleeping outdoors: John Fowles and Mary Oliver
From John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman: For one terrible moment he thought he had stumbled on a corpse. But it was a woman asleep. She had chosen the strangest position, a broad, sloping fedge of grass some five feet beneath the level of the plateau, and which hid her from the vew of anyContinue reading “Sleeping outdoors: John Fowles and Mary Oliver”
Poets and the planet — the connection
From a new set of prints by Evan Robertson: They can't help it. ("Maybe I'm too sensitive, or else I'm getting soft" — Dylan) h/t: Jacket Copy
Milky Way over the Sierras: Jeffrey Sullivan
At last Google+ provides a reason to believe: From July 2010, via Jeffrey Sullivan.
End of the world as we know it: Sierra register edition
A great story from the Los Angeles Times about the disappearance of registers atop Sierran peaks. Here's the first few graphs: For generations, the book survived in a metal box on California's rooftop — a small khaki-colored volume whose pages held a story of ephemeral encounters with an enduring place. The summit register on 13,765-footContinue reading “End of the world as we know it: Sierra register edition”
Off to Savage River
In Denali National Park. The Dall sheep on Primrose River turned out to be fascinating (and fascinated with us) but now, a year or so later, I don't have an image of them on this 'puter to show off.
Waking up to nature with the French
With the Parisian artist Chéri Hérouard: Oh, those French. So comfortable not only with their bodies, but with leaves, dampness, bugs…there's a sexiness, surely, in that acceptance. Via Kate Beaton and metafilter, while I'm off in Denali.
A Sierran haiku
Sometimes in the mountains I like to amuse myself with haiku. Like this one. Indulge me: They fall. They alight.The friendly mosquitoes dance —Happy to see us. From near the lush, beautiful, buggy Evolution Valley:
The Southern California resurgence of backpacking
Too long ago our local master of the backcountry Bill Slaughter and his rock and roller partner Rain Perry led a group of mostly Ojains into the wilderness to a popular camp by the Sespe, Bear Creek, an easy but pleasant walk, well documented by Modern Hiker. We had a great time and, having sent scouts aheadContinue reading “The Southern California resurgence of backpacking”
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