The COVID-19 slowdown

This virus isn't completely stopping our lives, it's just changing some of it. Greetings, how are you holding up?  I truly hope you're staying positive. This is a hard time for us right now. An unexpected, unplanned, and difficult phase to be stuck in. There's a lot of panic, frustration, fear, and sadn…

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Backpacking Great Basin National Park: Yearning for the outlaw

I unzipped my tent to an early, dim sky.  We agreed to an “alpine start,” waking up right at sunrise. I didn’t sleep too well last night. The winds were terribly loud. You could hear strong gusts ready at the top of Pyramid Peak, then barrel their way down, across the surface of Johnson Lake, and then crash into our t…

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Backpacking Great Basin National Park: Bagging the pyramid

The sound of crashing rockfall woke me up from inside my tent on the northwest shore of Baker Lake.  It was a loud, fast, and trembling rumble. For a split second, I worried if whatever cascading boulders would reach our camp, but I was half-asleep still. Compared to twelve hours prior, I felt much better health-wise…

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The National Park Service offers free admission on these days for 2020

Edward Abbey preached something so very true in his esteemed autobiography  Desert Solitaire:  "Wilderness. The word itself is music."  It's time to start planning out adventures to our public lands. With the arrival of a new year, the National Park Service recently announced which days all 419 units of th…

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