A short video featuring the Grand Wash / Frying Pan “loop” in Capitol Reef National Park. I’ve hiked this trail a couple of times on various Utah trips, most recently one in very late November / early December 2023. That … Continue reading
Hiking the Franconia Ridge trail in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. This is a nine mile loop with roughly 4,000 feet of elevation gain, that’s sometimes described as one of the best day hikes on the East Coast. My brother and … Continue reading
After a long pandemic / baby / toddler hiatus, my brother and I took a short trip out West this summer. Our original plan was to visit Idaho’s Sawtooth mountains, but we made a last-minute switch to the Wind Rivers … Continue reading
THE WHEELER GEOLOGIC AREA, in Colorado’s La Garita Wilderness, is something of an oddity. Twenty five million years ago, vast volcanic eruptions – among the largest to have occurred on Earth during the last 500 million years – created the … Continue reading
A short video showing the hike Chris and I did into Sheets Gulch, in Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park. It’s an unmaintained route, but at least in good conditions (such as we had) it’s not difficult. In fact, among the … Continue reading
Upper Muley Twist is my favorite hike in Capitol Reef National Park. I’ve done it three times now, most recently earlier this year with my brother. The video is a mix of Canon 5D3, Sony RX100 II and DJI Osmo … Continue reading
Back in early September my brother and I spent a week hiking in south-east Iceland. Our favorite hike was the loop from the visitors’ center at Skaftafell to Krist
Video shot on a hike from Sk
For the next week or so you can catch five planets: Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter, together in the sky before dawn. They’re not very close together, but today I tried a time lapse of Venus and Mercury rising … Continue reading
Utah’s Natural Bridges National Monument was established way back in 1908, but it remains off most visitors to the Utah desert’s radar. It’s a small, rather old-fashioned park, with a beautiful loop drive that takes you right past the main … Continue reading