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
Yukon’s Kluane National Park The static pages on my website have remained, well, pretty static in recent years! Over the winter, though, I went back and reprocessed images from my hiking trip to Kluane and the Tombstones in 2010, which … Continue reading
The Zion Narrows Slickrock along the West Rim trail Canyons in the Zion backcountry … 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 Saturday walk along the the Darent Valley path, starting where the river meets the Thames and ending at Sevenoaks station. My GPS recorded a touch over 20 miles (plus 3 extra miles if you start, as we did, at … Continue reading
The Navajo Knobs trail in Capitol Reef National Park is a 9.5 mile out-and-back hike that starts from the main canyon floor and climbs to the eponymous “knobs” – small rocky outcrops on the canyon rim that offer panoramic views … Continue reading
One of Colorado’s classic sights
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